I insert my images one at a time.  In case you don't know, you can double-click the image to insert at at the cursor point, which moves the cursor to the point right after the inserted image.

To change the framerate in After Effects, it should be in your Composition Settings. And I'm not too sure on what you mean by extending a clip.

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If you want 15 fps, you should put 15 where it says 29. As for importing images directly into After Effects, there is an option where you can import an image sequence which should solve your problem. It's right when you click Import File. There should be an option at the bottom of the window that pops up that says JPEG Sequence (or PNG Sequence, depending on the type of image). Once you click import, you can adjust the framerate in the next window. I have never used this option before, so I'm not too sure if you can adjust the length of individual frames. If it is necessary that a frame needs to be extended, I would just duplicate it in its folder before you import it into AE.

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Hey mousedroid tried it, alas no luck can you give me a more in depth explanation, I refer to the part were you take it to
the composition menu when starting a new composition every time I try and change the rate it still stays at 29 something can you explain how to fix this up, as even when I click default 15fps it still stays on 29 on another aprt, can you explain your theory by step by step?

Really appreciate it, as its bugging me so much I'd love to edit my film and can't due to this, also I've searched for answers and no luck would really appreciate it.

Kind regards Generalned

You didn't need to post another thread, people are responding to this one.
They're just concentrating on your other questions. 

I couldn't get mine (Vegas Platinum 11) to do it in the first place, but here are some options:

Option #1. Import them one at a time and put them exactly where you want them.
Option #2. Import them all at once and then organize them.
Option #3. Render them into a video file using another program.
Option #4. Import the images only into the top media bin/holder/thingy, then selcet them all and drag them down into the timeline. When they are imported into the bin/holder/thingy, they organize alphabetically, and stay that way when they are selected and brought down into the timeline..
Option #5. Click "Import Media" as "Image sequence", check the "Open still image sequence" box, select the first frame in the sequence, adjust your settings, and import it. This method imports the individual pictures AND strings them together as an image sequence.

I don't know of any other solution since I work primarily with video files, so one of these will have to do.

Hey Pritchardstudios, and holdingourown,

Firstly Pritchard thank you for your extended reply, firstly I do want to apologize about the other thread I did, I didn't think you or holdingourown or anyone for that matter was going to get back to me and it was stressful, I'll get an admin to close it after this message anyhow, and yea your probably right I should have gave people more time to figure out my problem, I will take that into notion next time.
It is also much appreciated you took time to write my options, however all the options from 2-5 I have tried with absolutely no luck, I never had this issue before, I don't know why sony vegas is randomizing my photos and not taking in notion that I have them in ascending order,
2. Importing them all at once then organizing 500 photos is going to be a very long and complex task for the reason the images are all randomized and I'd have to zoom in every time to move one photo away to put another there, so thats not an option unfortunately.
3. I don't have experience with editing video clips unfortunately as I have only ever done editing on images.
4.I though they would also go into the timeline alphabetically unfortunately they still randomize, unless I'm doing something wrong, I have tried dragging them into the project panel, and bin/holdy and it randomizes there even though I have renamed them to; example: test.01, test.02.
5. I tried the image sequence hoping it would just join all the images alphabetically and keep them as images, but as stated it becomes a video, so I that won't help me.

But its ok as I have option one for the time being and will have to do, anyhow thanks very much for getting back to me and giving me an answer much appreciated!

Hey holdingourown!
Thanks for your reply I'll try it out, however I found a different method for just playing at 15fps but thanks anyhow for your reply!

Also I have one more question, I haven't animated in a bit, and I have been trying lately but struggling a bit, Just wanted to ask how you guys edit the audio and sync it with the images?

For example, move lego man hand slowly up (hand from top to bottom was moved 7 frames) How long do extend each frame for a simple line of Are you Lucifer for example? because I don't know whether its not enough photos or I'm extending the frame to much, I'd really appreciate if you guys or anyone can help me.

Thanks again guys, for your replies,

Kind regards, generalned

Thanks for the thread mousedroid, I'll take a read through it, as for AE, the trouble I'm having is when I put a new composition, I don't seem to know how to effectively get it to 15FPS, and for the fact when I put all my images in its in order, but it just stays on the first image not moving no more than first..

The reason for not working the videos is for the fact I honestly don't know how to extend a single frame in the video file once it's in the timeline, are you able to tell me how you extend frames in a video files to edit the voicing and so forth?

NOTE: I read the thread, and it was the same problem, however they say the fix for it was by highlighting all of them, apprently he just highlighted the second and the rest instead of the first and the rest, what I planning to try is renaming it to simplied order, something like file001,file002,file003 instead of 13image001 (eg)< I'll also try to set the settings to default see that works. Thanks for your reply.
Kind regards, Generalned.

I don't know what's happening with the framerate issue. Whenever I start a comp, I go to the Composition menu on top, then I click on New Composition and I just type in whatever framerate I want and it works fine. And I think the reason why the other frames aren't playing is because the first frame is "on top", so you can't see the frames that are "below" it. If you click on the eye icon that corresponds to your first layer, it makes that layer invisible, so you will now because to see the second layer "below" the first layer. You'll have to manually adjust each frame to play only at a certain time by dragging around the colored bar that corresponds to the layer, which is very time consuming. This is why I suggest you should put your images together into an image sequence.

EDIT:
I figured out a way to extend a frame within a video in AE, but it could get a little tedious.
1. Start with a new comp with the footage you want in it.
2. Drag the time indicator to wherever you want the extended frame to start.
3. Go to Edit>Split Layer.
4. Duplicate the new layer the pops up.
5. Select the split layer (not the one you just duplicated) and go to Layer>Time>Freeze Frame. This should now make the whole split layer one long frame, but you won't see it immediately because the duplicate layer is on top of it.
6. Drag the colored bar in the timeline that corresponds to the duplicate layer to where you want the extended frame to stop.

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Dude, you're amazing. I never could figure out how to split/splice videos, so thanks.
(Also, don't you mean copy/paste?)