Default Duration Setting

[bleeckerj]

Does anyone know how to change the default duration for still images/clips in the layer? Currently the default is 5000ms, and I'd like to change it to something else so I don't have to change it individually for every clip. I've looked for some setting or other configuration — even editing a property list would be fine by me.

Thanks for the help.

Julian Bleecker

[Joris]

Hi Julian

Multiple clip selection is a brand new feature for R4, so we were kind of careful in adding too much functionality to it initially. It's in the plans to implement more features to it (in free R4.x.x update), for instance that it can distinguish that it has only images or sources selected, and thus offer you the option to change the duration for many clips at the same time.

Also, we're looking into making a few settings user definable, one of which would be the default source or still image duration.

For now, as a workaround, you could modify the .avc file containing all your stills. The part you're looking for is this:

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<parameter paramControlType="2">
                <name value="Duration"/>
                <nameGiven value="Duration"/>
                <values curValue="5000" defaultValue="5000" startValue="0" stopValue="1.79769313e+308"/>
              </parameter>

Where curValue would need to be changed to whatever you'd like it to be. A simple find and replace action should get the task done relatively quickly.

I hope that helps!

Joris

[bleeckerj]

That did it. Thanks. I think the features you mention are more than useful — global settings, or select-all and change settings is one of the routine interaction idioms for much software.

Thanks for your help!

Julian

[Mesec]

Hi all,

I work a lot with images, so I would also love to see this feature implemented, it can be quite time consuming to change the value of each image. Especially when unpredictable circumstances during the show call for a change of material - script, I sometimes want to quickly add a different folder of images. A simple "Default still image duration" value in the Preferences/Defaults would be just awesome!

thankyou!

[romand333]

Hi,

is there any upgrade progress with this for Arena 5?

Pleeeeeeease!