how do I resample a video track to play backwards

radiorental wrote on 1/2/2005, 4:32 PM

apologies, I know diddly squat about video editing but I've been landed with a project and a copy of vegas which I've never used before. Searched the help but no luck.

How do I reverse/play backwards/what ever the proper term is, a video track?

many thanks, sorry if this has been asked before but I couldnt find the answer

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Chienworks wrote on 1/2/2005, 4:35 PM

If you have Vegas 5, right-mouse-button click on the video clip on the timeline and choose "Reverse".

If you have Vegas 3 or 4, go to Insert / Envelope / Event Velocity. A thin blue line will appear through the clip. Drag this line down to -100% (or whatever speed you wish). This will reverse the video, but not the audio. The only version of Vegas that can reverse the audio is 5, so if you need to reverse it you'll have to use some other audio editor.

radiorental wrote on 1/2/2005, 4:53 PM

vegas 4, thanks for the help!

I seem to have hit a quirk. Bear with me in that I dont know Vegas. I trimmed down a clip and pasted that in to a new track. When I pulled the velocity down to -100% it doesnt appear to be the revere of the trimmed clip, it plays part of the 'master'

do I need to render the trimmed clip as a new file?

Chienworks wrote on 1/2/2005, 7:31 PM

When you trim the clip, you need to start at the end of what you want to use. When you reverse it, playback will start from the end and proceed backwards toward the beginning. So, for example, if you had a clip 123456789 and you wanted to see 654, you would trim to 7 as the start, add the velocity envelope, which would then show 654321, and then trim the end point back to show only 654.