Quick way to add over a 100 stills?

[Tim Miller]

Hello all,

I have to make a employee montage for a client...there is something like 135 stills of them. They just need to be put down with music. Is there a quick way to set a universal in and out point for all the stills so they are all the same? Then I could just select them all in the bin and lay them down on the timeline. They would then have enough head and tail for a transition.

I see when you set a in and out point for a clip it shows up in the bin. I was hoping that you can copy and paste these to the other clips but to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated!

By the way, I work on a PC Adrenaline v. 1.6.6, if that helps

Thanks

[krestofre]

http://www.avid.com/community/forums/Forum38/HTML/005456.html

[Tim Miller]

Thanks, I could of used that a couple of hours ago. Good to know for the future.

[Owen]

Updated Link: http://www.avid.com/community/ArchivedForums/Forum38/HTML/004062.html

(I happened to be searching this today -- couldn't get the previously posted URL to work)

[Owen]

Heck, why trust links to stay valid. This was posted by Ben Jordan on the Avid forums:

You can set an IN point and/or an OUT point on multiple files at once like this:
1) open the bin with the pictures and use the "Script" view (you can't do this in any other view). Open up the bin wide enough so you can see the Mark IN and/or the Mark OUT columns, so you can see the result.

2) select all the pictures (CTRL-A).

3) hit the "Step forward 10 frames" key 3 times (for 30 frames).

4) hit the "Mark IN" key.

You'll notice now that all the selected media in that bin now have a new IN point marked at 30 frames from their beginning.

You can set OUT points like this also. To quickly get to the end of the clilp, just hold down the "Step forward 10 frames" key for a few seconds -- it will repeat.

After making these multiple marks at once, then you can lay all the pictures in, and apply dissolves between them in a snap.