I want all 24 stills to be played in 1 second.

Regards,
Razzar out.....

Render all 24 into small avi - let's say 20 secs in total. Yeah? Okay - put this new clip back into the timeline grabhold of the end frame Tool, hold down Ctrl Key and move to the left. This will Squeeeeeze the clip into to a samller time frame say to 1 sec. OR goup using Group Tool and do the same!

Grazie

Lets say I have 24 still shots in my Media Pool, then I select them all and drag them onto the video track. By default the would be pasted over a period of 5 seconds, I want them to only take up 1 second on my videotrack. Can this be done?. Oh and thanks for the answers, I really appriciate it.

Regards,
Razzar out.....

I guess not easily. Are you PAL or NTSC? If you are NTSC, then 24 frames will not divide up evenly over 1 sec. There is 30fps in NTSC.

You can lay each frame on the timeline and then trim it to 1 frame each. That will get you a little less than a second. If you are pal, it will be almost a second, give or take a frame.

Dave T2

Woah there! I'm PAL, and as I understand it, going back to basics, the 25fps goes back to real film where it was agreed that at this rate the eye/brain function would "mege" one still frame into another, giving the "sense" of movement and motion - ie anything less than this would give you stuttering movement. I don't see how getting anything more than 25fps and NOW you are talking 29fps, would actually get you anything else than a blur of images? Tell us what you are reeeeally wanting to achieve and I/we may take it from there.

Razzar, looking at what you are attemtping to do, and IMHO, you are now into the realms of animation - yeh? However, there is an Internal Preset which you can determine the length of "Capture" still clips. Maybe this is the route you may wish to travel? I'll let others describe how you do this, as there are major VF programe pitfalls if you start messing about with these internal presets. Okay?

By the way, have you tried my initial method of doing this? Did it work? Were you happy with the results? If you try something and report it, I may be more willing to take it further......

Regards

Grazie

If you want to go a completely different route (just for fun) have a look at software for producing animated gifs. I've never used one in VF, but I believe they're ok.

Cheers

Ian G.

Grazie, I am not sure what you mean by a blur of images. NTSC runs at 29.97fps. My images aren't blurred.

The 25fps is based on the electrical cycles used in your, and other countries. In the US electricity is run at 60hz (60cycles a second). So the TV signal runs at 60 cycles. Each video frame is 60 fields per second, each frame is made of 2 fields, thus 30 fps. It is then slowed down to 29.97fps to allow for additional information introduced with color. In your area the eletricity is at 50hz.

24fps is a film issue, long before TV was considered. It was probably achieved through experimenting with how slow you could move the film through the gate and still have a watchable image. I assume it was based on how slow because of the cost of film. You wanted to use the least amount possible. A lot of people who are doing film for TV with rotoscoping in mind are shooting at 30fps. That way they can have a 1 to 1 frame rate for animating and rotoscoping. You can shoot film faster, and if you project it at that speed, the eye and brain are capable of perceiving the images quite well.

Not sure how this is related Razzar's question.

Dave T2

Thanks for that Dave T2.

Grazie

WARNING!!!!! THIS PROCEDURE IS POTENTIALLY DANGERIOUS!

Now then, with that warning out of the way ...

Click Options, then hold the Shift key down and click Preferences. You will see another tab labeled "Internal". DON'T MESS with anything in this tab! Follow these instructions precisely and don't change anything else.

Click on Internal. In the blank labeled "Show only prefs containing:" type in "still". You will now see the setting for ntDefVideoStillLength, which defaults to 50,000,000 millionths of a second, or in plain non-Vulcan English, 5 seconds. You can change this value to whatever you need. If you want your still to last 3.5 seconds, type in 35,000,000. Click Apply, OK.

Since the desired still length in this thread is 1/24 of a second, 10,000,000 / 24 = approximately 416,667. You will now have stills that last 1/24 of a second when dropped onto the timeline. For 29.97 stills per second, use 333,667.

Now, keep in mind that the video frame rate is 29.97 for NTSC and 25 for PAL. Setting the default still length to 1/24th will result in durations that don't line up with frame boundries. VideoFactory will do it's best to fudge it, but you will end up with some stills that last 1 frame and some that last 2 frames, and the 2 frame stills will be blended into the neighboring 1 frame stills causing some blurriness. It would probably be better to generate exactly enough stills per second as your project's frame rate.

I knew it! I knew it! Nice one Chienworks - well done... you were just waiting for somebody else to type it up, weren't you! Hey, perhaps we should all have a stock answer database ready for these occaisions! - But hey Chienworks how do you do BOLD and Italic - cooooolll!

Grazie

Let's see if i can even type what i need to in order to illustrate. You need to add the appropriate HTML tags for boldfacing and italicizing.

  for italics start with <i> and end with </i>, so <i>italics</i> becomes italics
  for bold start with <b> and end with </b>, so <b>bold</b> becomes bold

You can use both together, but make sure you "nest" them; which means end them in reverse order. For example: start italic start bold end bold end italic is proper. Start italic start bold end italic end bold is wrong and could mess up the page.