Settling length of still photos in iMovie
Is there a way to set the duration of a still photo in iMovie other than dragging manually? A field that can be simply filled-out with the desired duration?
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.13
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Hi, Owen,
Yes, you can set the duration of still photos other than by dragging the edge.
Select the photo in the timeline. Click on the little information button (the one that is a circle with an "i" in it) located in the toolbar at the upper right of your screen. That will reveal a duration box to the right, in which you can type in the duration that you want for the photo. After you type in the duration, press the Return key on your keyboard to set the duration. You can do this for a batch of photos by selecting a group of contiguous photos and typing in the duration as above. All the photos that you selected will then have the duration that you set.
You also can set the default duration of your photos from the iMovie Preferences box before you create your project. Click on iMovie/Preferences and the dialogue box will appear.
Enter the photo duration that you want. This will set the duration of all photo placed in the timeline of a project that you created after you set the default duration preferences. For existing projects, you would need to use the method first described above.
-- Rich