If I am not mistaken, you can apply the fade transition to All in the Transition Room.
You can put all of your images on track 1 and apply the fade transition to All. No need for a gap.

It is the second button between the transition room and the time line.

You have the choice of three different transitions, prefix, postfix, and cross.

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Thanks Carl. The thing is, PowerDirector automatically places them on the timeline with no gap and treats them as a single unit. It applies a fade in to the first slide and a fade out to the final slide but nothing to all the slides in between. www.rickcowan.com
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Quote: Thanks Carl. The thing is, PowerDirector automatically places them on the timeline with no gap and treats them as a single unit. It applies a fade in to the first slide and a fade out to the final slide but nothing to all the slides in between.

It does not work that way in Powerdirector 9, as far as I know PD 10 does the same.

I import a number of pictures to the media room, then click the first image, hold shift, click the last image.
That selects all in between first and last.

Drag images to the time line track 1.
Switch to the transition Room, in between the transitions display and the time line is two buttons, one if Apply Random to All, the other is Apply Fade Transition to All.

Click the Apply fade Transition to All, you get a choice of prefix, postfix, or Cross, I choose Cross.
A fade transition is placed between every image on the time line.

It does not place a fade at the start or at the end. you can add them manually.

The duration may affect that action, my images are currently set to 5 seconds in preferences.
Transitions do take up some of the time of the image display, so if your duration is set too short you may get what you describe.

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I frequently create videos that require many slides to be inserted as overlays. Each of these images is to fade in and fade out. My problem is that when I select them all and drag them to the timeline, PowerDirector automatically places them right next to each other with no gap. I would like to be able to drag them all to the timeline at the same time and click the feature that automatically applies fade effects to all images in the timeline. Unfortunately, because PowerDirector places them in a group only the first and last image receive the fade in/fade out effect.

I think I understand your question if I made it so easy here,
Add all photos on a track, then holding Ctrl, and select photos interspersed drag to another free track, now select all the photos and apply fade, Prefix / Postfix, will be applied to all the photos at once.
If you want you can drag photos into the same track again now.
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