Emulating Slow Shutter Speed

2G wrote on 4/22/2004, 2:57 PM

Is there a way to add the effect of a slow shutter speed to a video that was shot with a normal shutter speed? I'd like to get the blurring, jumpy, lagging video effect from motion. I'd also like to have control over the effective shutter speed. Do one of the shipped filters provide this (and just have a name that isn't obvious to me)?

I may be overlooking something obvious. Unfortunately, after 9 mo using Vegas, my "newbie" excuse is probably going to be wearing thin.... :-)

Thanks in advance.

2G

Comments

taliesin wrote on 4/22/2004, 3:27 PM

Slowing down the Undersample Rate and Motion Blur helps.

Marco

dvdfool wrote on 4/22/2004, 3:28 PM

Try looking up "undersampling" in the manual.

Right-click the video track, select properties, then change the "undersampling" to something a lot less than 1 (normal playback).

You'll get jumpy, lagging video, but not blurry. That's probably a motion-blur effect.

Cheesehole wrote on 4/22/2004, 4:50 PM

Check out Pixelan Step Time / Step Motion too - but I'm not sure if you are talking frame rate or shutter speed...

johnnycamcorder wrote on 4/22/2004, 4:56 PM

Duplicate the event in four to seven times in Vegas, one directly atop the other, displacing them on the timeline by fractions of a second (to taste). The bottom layer should have 100% opacity and each layer above it will need to have gradually decreasing opacity. The top layer's opacity should be around 10%.

You may also want to experiment with transfer modes. SCREEN and HARDLIGHT can look pretty cool when doing this. You may also want to play with the colors. It can look cool when you desaturate some of the lower layers and over-saturate the top layers.