Flexible & Intuitive frame searching & Psuedo-Stereo
First of all I’d (in the tradition of the best Oscar Ceremony awards recipients!) like to thank the considered and thoughtful assistance from the likes of VinceG, pl, Chienworks, et al for the VF2.0 introduction. I was really about to give up on this NLE lark/business [I’m an asylum seeker from MGI and their VW5 – VW makes it sound like a reliable, dependable German motorcar], (notwithstanding) Premiere 6 and others, for the/my budget-end requirements. In my opinion VF2.0 blows away this part of the OEM (I do have Studio7 as well, useful and straightforward).
Apologies if this has been brought to light somewhere else – but it is just so KOOL that I wanted to share with the VF folks – as a way of saying thanks. Okay, in playing about withVF2 and my mouse wheel, as you do in the wee small hours of the night, I have discovered I can now accelerate/decelerate as well as advance/reverse one frame at a time and view this process at my leisure, allowing my creativity to get up to speed with the process.
1. Go to the trimmer scrubber (I think that’s what it is called!) set the yellow diamond to anything you want ( 0.25 up to 2x speed)
2. Click on the “Pause” button (in European car driving parlance this is like “slipping the clutch”)
3. Move your cursor so that it’s pointer is directly touching the trimmer scrubber line and, (on my mouse wheel) gently push/rotate the wheel forward (releasing the clutch!) one notch – Bingo! I see the film “creeping” forward, down to as little as a frame at a time. You can observe this in the Preview and “count-off” on the time/frame counter the frames. Yup – y’ll in front of me! Now if you gently rotate the wheel towards you, ie backwards, the film and frames will go into reverse. Brilliant! Of course the more rotation forwards/backwards the faster the “seeking” process will be.
4. As I have got the Pause button activated, and when I am satisfied I’ve got the “position” I want, and the film comes to rest, it stops and remains stationary precisely at the point I want to edit etc. I have yet to try this out within the Trimmer window – but I have no reason to think that the same will not apply.
I now have the type of envied “finger-tip” control I’ve seen on those massive editing desks with the horizontal big-wheel that the film editor gently moves clockwise and anti-clockwise – neat eh folks!
There are two caveats to all this –
1. I’ve activated the Scrubber thingy in the Preferences (see elsewhere in this Forum how to activate this feature).
2. I’ve set up my Logitech Mouse wheel to move one-line at a time for my Word editing (my thoughts on this is, if I was to set-up my Mouse wheel to 3xlines or 6xlines at each wheel notch-click then maybe the advance/reverse would be more violent – I dunno – haven’t tried it)
Psuedo-Stereo
I’ve got an ancient well-loved analogue Panasonic camcorder – you know the type one mike on board – one mono audio track into SF. Well, playing with the audio pan device I’ve been able to make the audio switch from speaker A to B and put it somewhere in the middle. Then I thought, to give the sound more depth I’d introduce a “copy” of the audio track into say audio track 2 (I suppose I could just overlay the 1st audio track and leave subsequent audio tracks available for more meaningful creativity), with the slightest delay. This has introduced depth and a bit of echo – as it would. Then, being perverse and playful (type of guy I am!), I copied the same piece of audio and pasted it to the audio track 3. The whole thing sounds like we are speaking inside a cavern! Of course, lowering the sound levels on the 2nd and further on the 3rd really gives that “ghostly” sound. (Ooooh I’m having soooo much fun! Oh those poor souls with VW) Okay, I bet someone is going to say Yeh Yeah! You can do all this with an audio SFX – however nothing like experimenting for ones-self! You never know where it might take you.
I’ve got an update – VF2.0 to 2.0c – query. But I’ll post that in a fresh thread…
Bye bye from London, UK.
First of all I’d (in the tradition of the best Oscar Ceremony awards recipients!) like to thank the considered and thoughtful assistance from the likes of VinceG, pl, Chienworks, et al for the VF2.0 introduction. I was really about to give up on this NLE lark/business [I’m an asylum seeker from MGI and their VW5 – VW makes it sound like a reliable, dependable German motorcar], (notwithstanding) Premiere 6 and others, for the/my budget-end requirements. In my opinion VF2.0 blows away this part of the OEM (I do have Studio7 as well, useful and straightforward).
Apologies if this has been brought to light somewhere else – but it is just so KOOL that I wanted to share with the VF folks – as a way of saying thanks. Okay, in playing about withVF2 and my mouse wheel, as you do in the wee small hours of the night, I have discovered I can now accelerate/decelerate as well as advance/reverse one frame at a time and view this process at my leisure, allowing my creativity to get up to speed with the process.
1. Go to the trimmer scrubber (I think that’s what it is called!) set the yellow diamond to anything you want ( 0.25 up to 2x speed)
2. Click on the “Pause” button (in European car driving parlance this is like “slipping the clutch”)
3. Move your cursor so that it’s pointer is directly touching the trimmer scrubber line and, (on my mouse wheel) gently push/rotate the wheel forward (releasing the clutch!) one notch – Bingo! I see the film “creeping” forward, down to as little as a frame at a time. You can observe this in the Preview and “count-off” on the time/frame counter the frames. Yup – y’ll in front of me! Now if you gently rotate the wheel towards you, ie backwards, the film and frames will go into reverse. Brilliant! Of course the more rotation forwards/backwards the faster the “seeking” process will be.
4. As I have got the Pause button activated, and when I am satisfied I’ve got the “position” I want, and the film comes to rest, it stops and remains stationary precisely at the point I want to edit etc. I have yet to try this out within the Trimmer window – but I have no reason to think that the same will not apply.
I now have the type of envied “finger-tip” control I’ve seen on those massive editing desks with the horizontal big-wheel that the film editor gently moves clockwise and anti-clockwise – neat eh folks!
There are two caveats to all this –
1. I’ve activated the Scrubber thingy in the Preferences (see elsewhere in this Forum how to activate this feature).
2. I’ve set up my Logitech Mouse wheel to move one-line at a time for my Word editing (my thoughts on this is, if I was to set-up my Mouse wheel to 3xlines or 6xlines at each wheel notch-click then maybe the advance/reverse would be more violent – I dunno – haven’t tried it)
Psuedo-Stereo
I’ve got an ancient well-loved analogue Panasonic camcorder – you know the type one mike on board – one mono audio track into SF. Well, playing with the audio pan device I’ve been able to make the audio switch from speaker A to B and put it somewhere in the middle. Then I thought, to give the sound more depth I’d introduce a “copy” of the audio track into say audio track 2 (I suppose I could just overlay the 1st audio track and leave subsequent audio tracks available for more meaningful creativity), with the slightest delay. This has introduced depth and a bit of echo – as it would. Then, being perverse and playful (type of guy I am!), I copied the same piece of audio and pasted it to the audio track 3. The whole thing sounds like we are speaking inside a cavern! Of course, lowering the sound levels on the 2nd and further on the 3rd really gives that “ghostly” sound. (Ooooh I’m having soooo much fun! Oh those poor souls with VW) Okay, I bet someone is going to say Yeh Yeah! You can do all this with an audio SFX – however nothing like experimenting for ones-self! You never know where it might take you.
I’ve got an update – VF2.0 to 2.0c – query. But I’ll post that in a fresh thread…
Bye bye from London, UK.