How do you play clips backwards???

eagleman wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:28 PM

I'm new to Vegas - & video editing - and I'm having some problems trying to get a clip to run backwards. It's on it's own track but I just can't figure it out. Anyone know how to do this?

Comments

clearvu wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:34 PM

Use "velocity envelopes"

jetdv wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:35 PM

And change the percentage to a negative number

clearvu wrote on 8/7/2003, 6:05 AM

If you go to "-100%", the clip will play backwards at normal speed. Anything between "-1 to -99" will be slow motion, with lower numbers being the slowest.

Dwuane wrote on 8/7/2003, 9:02 AM

Place your event in the timeline. Right click your event and choose..Insert or Remove
Velocity Envelope. You will see a green line line dividing your event in the middle..
Left click this line and drag up or down to change your velocity. Negative numbers
mean reverse. You can also control this more by double clicking the green line and
placing little nodes wherever you want to. After doing that, drag the green line and see
what happens.
Dwuane

will-3 wrote on 8/7/2003, 2:41 PM

I guesds I'm missing something here.

I get the green "velocity" line on my clip & can double click it to set points and...

I pull the green line between the points all the way down but...

The clip does not play backward. I thought there may be a place that showed the "velocity" and I could type in -100 but couldn't find it.

I really want to only reverse one region of a clip.

Can someone offer advice?

Thanks - Will

jetdv wrote on 8/7/2003, 3:20 PM

Right-click the node, choose "set to" and enter the value desired. Also, read the second article in issue #9 of the Vegas Tips, Tricks, and Scripts Newsletter

will-3 wrote on 8/7/2003, 8:44 PM

Thanks jetdv... that got the video to play backwards.

Now, how do I get the audio to play backwards as well?

Thanks again,

Will

jetdv wrote on 8/7/2003, 9:44 PM

For audio, you have to use an external program such as Sound Forge or window's own sound recorder.

theigloo wrote on 8/7/2003, 9:49 PM

The fact that you have to go to an external program is a major problem in my mind. When you shuttle at -1x, vegas somehow figures out how to play the audio backwards... why can't it just record that?