iMovie help

I'm trying to make a claymation in iMovie. I've imported into iMovie, but they're all set at 5 seconds by default. I want them each to be set at about .2 seconds, so I have to set them individually one by one, then drag them into my timeline thing. I have 100+ pictures, so this takes forever. Is there a simpler way to do this?

Thanks.

I believe I know the answers, but I'm not going to explain this twice, so what version of iMovie are you using.

im using the one from ilife '06, and i just updating, though i dont think the free update moves me to '08.

OK, that is iMovie HD you have. The latest version is 6.0.4, which is what I tested against.

You perform a select-all on the images in your time line. Choose the media tab and the Photos tab for that. That displays a button that says "Show Photo Settings". With the images selected in the time line, click that button to bring up a window to set the frame count and ken burns effect. Tripple click the numbers next to the turtle. The first is seconds and the second is the frame count (0-29).

I'm seeing a bug where you can't create less than 11 frames per image, so it would seem you can't do the .2 seconds (6 frames) you are looking for. I get the Invalid message; "Fell short of minimum. The value must be between 00:03 and 60:00.". My iMovie HD has another problem, so maybe this is only affecting me.

You might want to look into iStopMotion for this type of work.

It affects me too, but not when I do each picture individually once they are on the timeline. Sometimes it will import though, but randomly it will go in at 00:09:29. With all of the rave I heard about iMovie, I'm not too impressed.

I received the 9:29 time too.

Keep in mind, as good as iMovie is, it is a basic tool and as all software does, it has its own share of bugs.