Extending time of slides

[Kabeeo]

I feel like such a dope. I am working on my second project. A season for my son's baseball team, who won the championship this summer. I know that you can set the default for slide length before you start, but I forgot. Last project I was able to go into the scene line and by putting the cursor at the right edge of the image I was able to extend its playing time. This time I can't for some reason. I can only extend the Title image (which has no soundtrack) and the last image. The only thing I am thinking is that it might be because I have not yet filled up the first soundtrack with images, so that everytime I add an image the soundtrack expands to the end of that image. Is that possible. Also how do I expand the default playing time? I might have to go back and start all over :(. Help!!

Thanks

[ATR]

Preface: There is no such thing as a silly or otherwise Photoshop Elements Premiere Elements question. Everyone here went through the same ups and downs of Photoshop Elements Premiere Elements learning curve. So ask away, and someone will pop of to help. I am no expert and am continuously learning; consequently, my comments are of the it works for me variety.

OK, back to the original question. I still have Premiere Elements 2.0 which has Timeline, no Sceneline. So, I cannot now speak to the Sceneline do’s and don’ts for this.

Beforehand
Go to Edit Menu/Preferences/General/Still Image Default Duration.
The default is 150 frames which, at 30 frames/sec, equates to 5 seconds for each still).
So, if you change the 150 frames to 300 frames, that now equates to 10 seconds for each still.
Once you change the default, it stays that way until you change it to another setting. So, do not get caught by a left over still duration setting.

If instead After,
Get Stills into Media Panel, highlight the ones wanted, go to the More Options in the Media Panel, from the drop down, select Create a Slideshow. Take it from there. Note that in this dialog you have the option to set as frames or seconds in contrast to Preference/General/Still Image Default Duration where you set in frames. That is OK if you are thinking in frames, not seconds. However, the mental conversion from frames to seconds is an easy one.

Then there is the Time Stretch one at a time, using route where you right clicking the still image on the Timeline. Be sure to check Maintain Audio Pitch to avoid sound distortions.

That is a quick overview. Let me know if I left anything out. Hope that helps.

ATR


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[Kabeeo]

Thanks ATR. I knew I was supposed to do something at the beginning. Just wasnt sure what!

The first thing I am going to try is to fill in enough slides to cover the first soundtrack. It doesn't make sense that this could be the problem, but I might as well try. After that I will take up your advice.

Thanks again,

[Barb O]

I think that you can drag the OUT point to extend the amount of time a specific slide is displayed. And that the OUT point is actually in a monitor area above the Sceneline (where you see the playback).

I am not currently at a machine that has Premiere Elements to check. However, I think that there is some text in the Help that may actually help for this type of slide show edit once I gave you the clue to look for OUT Point.

[Kabeeo]

Thanks. That doesn't ring a bell but I will look for it.

[Barb O]

Here is a more specific reference:
"To extend or shorten a clip, select it in the My Project panel, and drag the in point or the out point in the Monitor panel ." is in the Help topic "To edit slide shows in Adobe Premiere Elements"

This discussion applies to the Sceneline view selected. If you look at the actual help text it will include icons for the in and out points (they are a triangle on top of a rectangle) and that should assist you in locating them.

Now if you have the Timeline selected, you should be able to position your mouse at the end of the time for that slide on the Timeline, see a double headed arrow that can be dragged in either direction in order to length or shorten the duration. If you have anything (like text) on a different track above that slide, you most probably will need to adjust the duration of that other track separately.

One thing where I am not sure is how your audio tracks will be impacted when you stretch the time for a slide. So do observe what is happening and whether that is what you want.

[Kabeeo]

Thank you to all. I was able to extend the time for slides by clicking on the out point in the Monitor Panel. This did not effect the soundtrack at all and has workded rather nicely. I did try to right click on the image in the timeline and to use Time Stretch but the option to not affect the soundtrack (forgot the right word) was grayed out and was unavailable.

For some reason placing the cursor at the right odge of the image in the timeline does not bring up the red bracket with the arrow that lets you drag out the image to a longer time. There seems to be a yallow line that runs through the images that I do not rememebr seeing on my last project. Anybody know what that is or whether it might affect the ability to stretch them?

Anyway I seem to ba alright for now. Thanks to everybody here. I love using this program, but it would definitely be confusing without all of your help.