How to SUPER fast video?

cheb75 wrote on 5/27/2007, 12:55 PM
Version: VMS 7.0a

I have an event that is 45 mins long, one continuous clip, I'd like to show as a time lapse. If I speed up the clip by draging it back, it only shortens it to like 10+ mins. I'd like for the clip to be around 30-45 SECONDS.

How?

I right click the event, go to properties and go down to "playback rate" and it is at 4.000. I try and click the up arrow to INCREASE it and it DOESNT change. Just seems to be limited to 4.000? ..why is that? ....Isnt this how you speed up the event faster?


What do I need to do?

thanks for your help.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 5/27/2007, 1:17 PM
4x is the fastest you can go. Render it at 4x to a new DV .avi file. Then load this new DV .avi file on the timeline and speed it up 4x. It will now play at 16x the original speed. Lather, rinse, repeat, as many times as necessary.
cheb75 wrote on 5/27/2007, 1:20 PM
Ok I understand.

Thank you for the help.
cheb75 wrote on 5/27/2007, 1:22 PM
Do you know if Vegas can go faster?

or is it limited to 4.0 as well?
Chienworks wrote on 5/27/2007, 2:19 PM
The full version has velocity envelopes in addition to the media speed setting. These allow a 3x increase. So combining the two you can go up to 12x.

Velocity envelopes also allow you to vary the speed from moment to moment which is a nifty effect. They also allow negative velocities so you can run the clip in reverse (though most newer versions of Vegas also have an "event reverse" function too). However, velocity envelopes are limited to video only. They don't operate on audio.
cheb75 wrote on 5/28/2007, 1:57 PM
Thats good to know.

I've considered getting a full version of Vegas, just not sure I wanna drop the $$$

..my VMS Plat. works fine for the most part..... for what I want to do atleast.

thanks again for the help. The clip turned out great.
4eyes wrote on 5/30/2007, 8:59 PM
I can't remember exactly how I made the time lapse video in VMS but remember I lowered the framerate and sped up the video.
gpsmikey wrote on 7/6/2007, 12:48 PM
Well, this is a bit late, but maybe it will help others looking for the
info :-) Check out the scenalyzer utility. It is a great capture utility,
but it also has a number of other neat features like grabbing a frame
to a jpg etc. It also has a feature where you can use it to grab a
"time lapse" from your video. Seems to me you can select almost
any interval you want and it will grab every nth frame for you.

http://www.scenalyzer.com/

mikey
dibbkd wrote on 7/6/2007, 2:19 PM
If you were using the "full" version of Vegas, then you could use

http://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/veldur.phpExcalibur[/link]
busterkeaton wrote on 7/6/2007, 10:40 PM
As Mikey points out. Speeding up your video is not the same as time laspe.

If you shot one hour of video and sped it up so that it lasted one minute, it would have a different look from a time-lapse video of the same length.

scenalyzer does exactly what you want.