Prem6 or VV3 Speed Ramping

geoffreymee wrote on 4/22/2002, 11:08 AM
I am doing a projectabout container ships. In the past I have done timelapse sequences on ships and other stuff in doco's and corporates. Now I want to do it using DV video.
If I have a shot that is one hour long [of a ship arriving at a berth. The camera is on the ship], will VV3 speed ramp it into, say 15 seconds for me? If so, how do you do it.
I was speaking with the editor today who said there is a method that Prem6 uses whereby it will select every 10th frame or something to do this. He also said we could just put the entire one hour on the timeline and speed it up from there.
Any thoughts, suggestions.

TIA
GeoffreyJakarta

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Chienworks wrote on 4/22/2002, 11:32 AM
Vegas allows you to adjust the speed of a clip from 25% to 400%. Right-mouse-button click on the clip, choose properties, and enter the playback speed you want. If you need to go faster than 400%, render the clip at 400% to a new DV avi file, then load this fine onto the timeline and repeat as necessary. To compress one hour into 15 seconds, you would need to use four steps: 400%, 400%, 400%, and 375%.
Cheesehole wrote on 4/22/2002, 6:28 PM
you could capture it using software capable of time lapse capturing. I believe Scenalizer live can do it, but check out the web site:
http://www.scenalyzer.com/main.html

Time lapse capture:
"Record e.g. one hour of a Sunset and then use ScLive to capture the video into an e.g. 15 seconds .avi file which will show the sunset 240 times faster."
Luxo wrote on 4/24/2002, 3:56 PM
Seems to me the easiest way would be to drop the whole clip on the timeline, put the mouse cursor at the end of the clip, hold CTRL, and drag the edge to the desired length.

Luxo
Cheesehole wrote on 4/24/2002, 5:38 PM
but Luxo, aren't you limited to 4x speed? unfortunately that isn't going to work. maybe in VV4. :)
Luxo wrote on 4/24/2002, 10:11 PM
Doh! You're right, I'm sorry. I never noticed that. Guess I've only been using it for slow motion. Thanks for correcting me.

Luxo