I am trying to help my son make a stop action movie from photos he shot on
our digital camera. I was able to downlaod the photos and import them into
Movie Maker. The story board looks correct. The problem is when I try to
make the movie, I cannot control the frames per second, and I end p with
about 5 seconds per frame.

Could someone please advise me how to adjust the fps?

Thanks

Matt Carpenter wrote:
I am trying to help my son make a stop action movie from photos he
shot on our digital camera. I was able to downlaod the photos and
import them into Movie Maker. The story board looks correct. The
problem is when I try to make the movie, I cannot control the frames
per second, and I end p with about 5 seconds per frame.

Could someone please advise me how to adjust the fps?

Thanks
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The following instructions are for Movie
Maker 2.1...but may also be useful for
Vista version 6.

Make the duration adjustment before
you drag the pictures to the timeline.
....Tools / Options / Picture Duration...
a good starting place may be 0.250 sec.

Or...in timeline view...adjust them one at
a time by placing your pointer on each
picture at the edge and dragging the double
red arrow...you'll see a tooltip that shows
the duration as it changes.

When the duration is very short the pictures
appear very narrow on the timeline...you can
expand the view somewhat with your Page
Down key.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
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Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 04:00:00 -0800, Matt Carpenter Matt
wrote:

I am trying to help my son make a stop action movie from photos he shot on
our digital camera. I was able to downlaod the photos and import them into
Movie Maker. The story board looks correct. The problem is when I try to
make the movie, I cannot control the frames per second, and I end p with
about 5 seconds per frame.

Could someone please advise me how to adjust the fps?

Thanks

If you're talking a slide show (series of still images) there's no
reason to adjust FPS, Movie Maker is poor doing this to begin with.

1. Switch to timeline view.
2. Click on the image you want to stay on screen longer or shorter.
3. Grab an edge of the image, you should see a red arrow.
4. Drag left to reduce the time span, drag right to increase.

If you want ALL images in your project to be longer or shorter than
the default setting you can change that under duration.

your answer should be part of the movie maker FAQ or the HELP-file! Very
useful and excactly the information were looking for. I've vasted a lot of
time trying to find this info in the Movie Maker help files.

Thanks!