Keystone Cops Effect

JimMSG wrote on 11/21/2007, 10:46 AM

Have a couple of shots the producer wants to speed up (they involve loading and unloading construction equipment which tends to be quite slow). Inserting a velocity envelop only allows for 300% increase at a time. I could render and repeat, however we were thinking if we could get a Keystone Cops kind of effect that would be even better. Is there a way to have Vegas drop frames on purpose to do this? I was digging through the help files and didn't find what I was looking for.

Jim

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Chienworks wrote on 11/21/2007, 10:53 AM

Hold the Ctrl key down and drag the end of the clip to the left. The farther you "squish" the faster it will play, up to 4x. Combine this with velocity envelope to get up to 12x playback.

To drop frames open up the clip's properties (right-mouse-button click on the clip) and under media change the undersample rate. Set this to 0.5 and every other frame is played. Set to 0.1 and only every 10th frame is played. This doesn't affect playback speed at all.

dand9959 wrote on 11/21/2007, 8:15 PM

Any file footage of the Bush administration in action should do the trick.

JimMSG wrote on 11/22/2007, 9:30 AM

Heh-heh, too bad they aren't riding the construction gear I've got loading and unloading. :)

JimMSG wrote on 11/22/2007, 10:14 AM

Thank you! Going to have to wait for the next edit session with the client, but I think these techniques are going to handle the job.

Thanks again.

navydoc wrote on 11/22/2007, 4:25 PM

Here's 39 sec worth of chase music you may be able to use also. This is a midi file converted to .wav.

Hope you can use it.

Doc

bw wrote on 11/23/2007, 5:11 AM

You can also capture with Scenalizer Live to get any degree of 'speed up' you want.I recently used it to compress two hours of a park restoration project by a youth forum group into a two minute clip.
Brian

JimMSG wrote on 12/6/2007, 5:31 AM

Thanks Doc. I might be able to use that. Would you be able to send me the MIDI file? Then I could customize it to the the other piece of music I'm using in the clip.

navydoc wrote on 12/7/2007, 4:43 AM

Jim,

Here's the midi version plus a few more you might like
silent movie midi's
Doc