How are you speeding video up more than 4x?

JayLJohnston wrote on 8/25/2010, 11:15 AM

Hi Everyone,
How do you all speed up video? I have been creating a project, placing my video in it, speeding it up 4 times (that's the maximum it seems) via properties, unlooping it, scrolling it back to the tick mark, rendering it, then creating a new project, putting the render in, then speeding it up however many more times I want (up to 4x again), and repeating this until I'm satisfied. I am using 1920x1080 AVHCD video and plan on creating both blurays and DVDs from this. Also, I'm creating .m2t files when rendering. Is this suggested? Thanks!

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Sonata wrote on 8/25/2010, 11:37 AM

The non-Pro versions of Vegas can only speed up video 4x, so rendering and speeding it up another 4x is the only way to do it.

Regarding the AVHCD stuff, can't help ya there (I only work in SD still).

Chienworks wrote on 8/25/2010, 12:30 PM

Rendering to a new file and bringing it back in is the way to do it. I can speed up your "4x-ing" for you though. Instead of mucking about with properties and trimming, simply grab the right edge of the event and Ctrl-drag it back to the left as far as it will go. This trims and speeds it up in one operation, without any effort needed to find out where the end is afterward.

JayLJohnston wrote on 8/25/2010, 12:47 PM

Thanks! I was wondering if I was doing it correctly and is seems like I am. I'll try that trick with dragging it as well. Thanks again

drguitar0001 wrote on 8/27/2010, 3:44 PM

If you are just looking to speed up video that you have already taken, the way you are doing it works the best. I bought a Samsung camcorder recently and it has a time lapse function that allows me to speed things up 60x or more. Here is a video made at 60x speed,