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may seem like a silly question, I work in corporate and deal with a lot of powerpoint presentations. i tend to import these into Xpression as images. I have my template made, and i need to import roughly 100 slides to individual scenes. is there a mass import for this or do i have to link that material (the image slide) to each scene one at a time?

You don't need to create 100 scenes to do this. You can create one scene with a published quad and from the sequencer create 100 take items each one pointing to a different image.
You will still need to link each one individually but it will probably be much faster as you don't need to create a scene, add a quad, create the material, etc..
From the sequencer you will have an Images tab where you can just click and choose the image you want assigned to that take item.

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To answer your original question though; you can import multiple images at once by selecting them in windows explorer and drag/drop the whole set of them onto the material manager and it will automatically create a new material for each image file you dropped.
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sorry if my question was confusing, yes i knew i didn't need to create 100 scenes. just 1 scene and then 100 take items. but there is no way to mass link the materials to multiple take items?
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You can.

Go to the Sequence (F4) and select the default Take Item where you're Powerpoint Template is in. Right click on it and select Export Take Item To > XML or TXT.

If you open this saved file you can modify / copy paste you're info for the images you want to show.

If you done that go back in the Sequence (F4) right click on a take item again and follow Take Item List > Import From > XML or TXT

And within the group xpression automatically fill all the take items with the information you put in the file

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