Reducing blur when recording with higher playback rate

kentavv wrote on 10/23/2016, 11:46 PM

Sorry, I'm probably not going to use the correct terms but I hope the questions still makes sense. I'm looking for alternatives and best practices for speeding up a video.

(Also sorry if this a duplicate posting. I started to compose this and my login must have timed out. Luckily I had made a copy of the text.)

I need to speed up a video by 16 times. To do this I import the original video (30fps), hold down Control and drag the end of the video, which increases the playback rate by up to 4x. I render the video at 60 fps, high bitrate, import it, and repeat. It may be wrong to do, but I increase the fps as I render the spedup videos in an attempt to preserve some quality in the intermediate videos.

This method takes time but works OK. The problem I have is there is so much blurring that occurs. This would be great in some cases I'm sure, but in my case, the motion is back-n-forth and at such a speed it's sickening. 

Is there a way to reduce the blurring? I see a button marked "bypass blurring." Is the following alternative possible, to render a video of the original video, but keeping every 16th frame? That would speed everything up, and while would look choppy, it may actually work better for my video.

Thank you

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Quitter wrote on 10/24/2016, 12:11 AM

You can also use the Velocity-Envelope to speed up to 300%

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NickHope wrote on 10/24/2016, 12:16 AM

To reduce blurring, try right clicking on the video > switches > disable resample.

In VP14 the velocity envelope will go up to 1000%.

kentavv wrote on 10/24/2016, 12:18 AM

Looks like with Velocity Envelope the maximum increase is 1000%. Does that sound right? Is the Velocity Envelope preferred to the Time Scretch method (Control + drag)? I liked the Time Stretch because the length of the video is updated. Does the choice of the method have any impact on the motion blur?

Thank you

 

NickHope wrote on 10/24/2016, 12:26 AM

The result really depends on the resample setting (see my last comment). When you use the velocity envelope the end of the media is shown in small grey triangles at the top of the event on the timeline.

kentavv wrote on 10/24/2016, 10:01 AM

Perfect, thank you Nick!