I was working on an iMovie project this morning which involved quite a few still images with brief transitions between them. I had forgotten to change the "default still image duration" before importing the pictures, so they all had 10 second lengths when placed on the timeline. I needed them all to be much shorter (around a half-second each), so I was hand-editing each duration box...
After I got tired of doing "click image on timeline - click on duration box - highlight portion of text to change - type new time - hit return" for the 300th time, I discovered that you can do a "select all" within the duration box, then "copy", then select the next image and click in its duration box, then "select all" and "paste". This is much much faster than my previous method (as long as you want all the images to have the same duration, of course!).
After I got tired of doing "click image on timeline - click on duration box - highlight portion of text to change - type new time - hit return" for the 300th time, I discovered that you can do a "select all" within the duration box, then "copy", then select the next image and click in its duration box, then "select all" and "paste". This is much much faster than my previous method (as long as you want all the images to have the same duration, of course!).
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