These are all helpful tips- but I wanted to know and if anyone can help me that would be great. But if I don't want the objects to go off from the slide - do I just click ' always show' and they wont disappear from the screen?
When you right-click an object on the timeline, you'll see additional options for managing timing and duration:
Align to Cue Point: This moves the object along the timeline so its starting point lines up with the Cue Point # you select.
Align to Playhead: This moves the object along the timeline so its starting point lines up with the current position of the playhead (blue vertical line).
Show Until End: This displays the object until the end of the slide's timeline.
Show Always: This displays the object for the entire duration of the slide, from beginning to end.
Timing: This opens the Timing window (shown below), where you can specify the Start Time and Duration of the object (in seconds).
The only way it would disappear with that setting is if you set up an exit animation for it, and then it would disappear accordingly. Otherwise it should remain on the timeline/slide.
Robert thank you so much for the video. It helped me, but I had some issues first... My timeline did not want to drag to a smaller amount of seconds, then I went to right-click and set the timing of all of my objects and realised that I couldn't set the timing on groups. I then expanded the groups on my timeline and adjusted only their timing to 10 seconds and only then could I use your method! Hope this helps someone else :)
You can also select multiple objects and right click select timing and reduce the duration , if you have groups open the group in the timeline and click to select all the objects individually before right clicking.
Adding to Robert's suggestion, if you create a cue point on your timeline, when you drag the timeline and press the left arrow, the timeline will adjust to that cue point. This technique allows you to more easily set the exact time you want with minimal over/under shooting.
Perfect. This is exactly what I was looking for! I think I had to look around for almost half an hour before finding your solution, Victoria-thanks!
Cute points. I was wondering if they had something useful to do with this :)
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VERY HELPFUL!!! Thank you!!!
Glad this thread helped you out Raquel!
Thank you Robert (and Anthony?) for this amazing tip. Huge time saver.
These are all helpful tips- but I wanted to know and if anyone can help me that would be great. But if I don't want the objects to go off from the slide - do I just click ' always show' and they wont disappear from the screen?
Hi Nadilah,
I think you'll want to review this section on changing the duration of objects, specifically:
When you right-click an object on the timeline, you'll see additional options for managing timing and duration:
thank you, this is useful.
I want to use 'show always' but where it says 'end' what is end? does the text eventually disappear from the screen?
The only way it would disappear with that setting is if you set up an exit animation for it, and then it would disappear accordingly. Otherwise it should remain on the timeline/slide.
Thanks Robert!!! Really TIME SAVING !!
Outstanding fix!
THANK GOD I found this, and thanks for posting the solution.
Glad this was able to assist you as well Greg :)
Robert thank you so much for the video. It helped me, but I had some issues first... My timeline did not want to drag to a smaller amount of seconds, then I went to right-click and set the timing of all of my objects and realised that I couldn't set the timing on groups. I then expanded the groups on my timeline and adjusted only their timing to 10 seconds and only then could I use your method! Hope this helps someone else :)
Glad you were able to update it Dina, and good reminder about expanding the groups to adjust the timeline of each individually.
This is such a time saver! How did you figure this out? Thanks!
That's awesome Robert!!!
Glad this still helped you out Jay and Bruce-Alan.
Thanks, Robert! Even after 2 years, there isn't an option to manually input timeline times. This trick helped me!
You can also select multiple objects and right click select timing and reduce the duration , if you have groups open the group in the timeline and click to select all the objects individually before right clicking.
I could almost cry with joy! This has saved me so much hassle.
Absolutely, Theresa. A lifesaver!
Aww glad you got the help you needed here Theresa and just let us know if you need anything else.
Perfect. This is exactly what I was looking for! I think I had to look around for almost half an hour before finding your solution, Victoria-thanks!
Cute points. I was wondering if they had something useful to do with this :)
Thanks so much! Very efficient compared to the endless dragging.
Glad that this thread was able to assist you as well Angela :) Thanks for popping in to share.
hello, how set all slides a duration? not manually please