Adobe Premiere Help!

[yetimeister]

Ha, okay so I have only used very little of Premiere 5 and now have CS4, i'm putting together a simple stop motion video and am curious if there's a way to change the length (duration) of all the images at once, rather than changing it individually, this would shorten the time it took to make this video significantly!

[Cacteur]

I don't think there is yetimeister. Although I do use Premiere a lot, I'm mostly doing what I'm told to do, so I'm no expert, but, even if all the clips were the same duration, and you were altering them to the same, I can't see how you could automate the process.

I could be wrong, but my guess would be no. :afro:

[yetimeister]

Bummer, I need to find a program that does then because I can't imagine editing long stop motion videos using Premiere! Thanks for the help, Cacteur

[Cacteur]

I still can't quite imagine how you could automate that. If you say, had a pile of vids, and you want them all chopped to the same length from, say, the beginning of each vid, then I could see batch processing being possible, but you are unlikely to be doing that, right?

Best thing to do would be to streamline what you are doing manually, as much as you can. Put the unedited files in one folder, save edited files to another, establish the most efficient process then work your way through them.

Computers are good but they can't work miracles. I once had to clear cut 1200 jpegs taken from photographs of window fittings for an online catalogue. I spent far too much time pissing about trying to figure out how to automate the process. When you think about it, there was no way on earth that would have been possible, and I should have just got stuck in. By the time I had finished I was only spending about two minutes on each one anyway. You may find you can get your processing time right down too with practice.

Good luck with it anyway man. :thumbsup:

[yetimeister]

You really don't see how it would be possible? Maybe i'm overestimating the power of today's video editing software, ha. I mean, all i'm doing is shortening the duration that each picture shows on the video. But unfortunately you're probably right but I must keep looking! I'll find a video editing forum or something, there has to be some program that I can use.

I'm extremely lazy, as i'm sure you can tell :lol:

[Cacteur]

'Sup yetimeister,

I know this is long gone, and forgotten, but I was talking to a multimedia expert mate of mine the other week and I ended up mentioning this.

He told me to tell you that you would find it much easier using a still camera to record images for a stop motion video. It's how he does it. ;)