How can i pause video on a final frame...

Finatic13 wrote on 1/21/2002, 8:29 AM

Ive just added a bit of slow motion to the final part of a video and want to pause it on the final frame for 20 seconds or so, is this possible???

regards
simon

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johnmeyer wrote on 1/21/2002, 2:16 PM

You can zoom in, select the last frame, and select "Copy" from the Edit menu. Then, move the cursor to the place where you want to see the last frame played, and select "Paste Repeat" from the Edit menu. Multiply the number of seconds of video you want by 30 and enter that number in the "number of times to paste" field (i.e., for 20 seconds, you would enter 600).

jimcho wrote on 1/21/2002, 4:06 PM

An alternative (if you don't want to add 600 events to your timeline) is to take a snapshot of the last frame using the floppy icon over your preview window. It will put the image in your media pool. Just drag it to your timeline and size it to whatever length you want.

wvg wrote on 1/21/2002, 10:43 PM

Wow, that's a lot of pasting. No need. Just copy the last frame ONE time. Then drag that event (frame) as far as you want to the right. On the timeline it will appear as duplicate images, however it is just one stretched out.

For a nice touch assuming that's the end of your video, position your cursor over the top right edge of the last frame until the cursor changes to a double headed arror with a quarter circle and shows Opacity. Carefully drag to the left so you get a blue line that is on a angle at the top of the frame and stays at the extreme right at the botton. Your video will slowly fade to black. How fast is determined by how much you drag to the left.

jimcho wrote on 1/22/2002, 12:22 AM

Hey wvg, clue me in. Events are just "windows" into your media file, so if you create a 1 frame event and then stretch it, you'll only continue playing the rest of the media, then loop to the beginning. Which is why you need to create a snapshot (a 1 frame media file). Unless I'm missing something here. Remember we're talking VF here, not Vegas. We can't set velocity to zero.

Finatic13 wrote on 1/22/2002, 3:03 AM

wvg wrote on 1/22/2002, 9:14 AM

Oops... I goofed on stretching a single frame event. I made a dumb mistake. I had VF open and the last event was a still image. So then of course you can stretch it all you want and not open more of the file, since there is no more to the file. LOL!