freeze frame in editing for vegas 5

nico2112 wrote on 11/27/2004, 8:32 PM
I know we have seen this too often.. but hey.. we do what the client wants right? I have a sequence in a bar where a guy is drinking a beer, the client wants me to freeze the image for 2 seconds in the timeline while the music and ambient sounds continue... then the action picks up again and the guys finishes his beer... how do I achieve this in vegas 5 ?

thanks a lot

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Steve Mann wrote on 11/27/2004, 10:27 PM
What happens after the freeze? I can think of how to freeze a frame but let the audio continue, but at the end of the freeze, does the guy continue from the pause? If yes, then the audio will be out of sync - or does that matter?

Steve
busterkeaton wrote on 11/28/2004, 1:26 AM
You insert a velocity envelope. This allows you to control the speed of a clip. You can add points along the envelope. The points can be set from -300% percent to +300 percent. That is 3x times normal speed in reverse motion to 3x foward. Anything less than 100% is slow motion. 0% percent is a freeze frame.

If the music and the ambient sounds are part of the same clip, then you will have to fiddle with them for them to stay in sync. I would add the audio as another clip. If the audio is separate you just 2 seconds more of audio.