Change Duration Great for Stills

The “Duration” dialogue can be called forth by selecting a clip or transition and hitting CTRL D

This one is pretty straightforward in that you type in the new duration (preferably by using timecode entry “shorthand” with numbers and periods to replace sets of zeros, i.e, “3.” for 3 seconds or “1..” for 1 minute), hit enter or return twice (once to flesh out the timecode and once to activate) and your clip or transition will be changed.

Note that if you are doing this to a clip or still, the effect will ripple–that is, all clips to the right of the selected clip will move accordingly and no gap will be left.

I particularly like using this with a series of stills where I need to quickly go through and change their durations. When it comes to changing the duration of clips, I prefer the Ripple edit tool as you can see the new final frame in the two-up display in the Canvas that appears when you use the Ripple tool (you do not get this if you use brackets to adjust a selected edit point).