Reverse video

Lody wrote on 3/11/2002, 12:26 PM

I figured out how to do it, but there must be an easier way.

I have a videoclip that among other things, contains a piece where someone falls into the water. I cut out that piece, put it on the timeline twice. Applied a velocity envelope to the last one and dragged the blue bar to -100%.

The second clip went in reverse video alright, but backwards from the startingpoint, so showing footage that is in the original clip that I did not cut out.

I solved it by rendering the target part of the clip seperately first and than applied the velocity envelope.

Did I miss a checkbox or something like that, I think I have tried them all.

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 3/11/2002, 1:01 PM

Velocity envelope is the only way to reverse video.

Lody wrote on 3/12/2002, 3:57 AM

Thank you for replying,

I did understand that this was the only way to do reverse, and I am glad it works so well.

I was just wandering if there is a way to have a cut behave like an entity and not as a part of a file.

When I now do a reverse (or a fast-motion), other parts of the file are being shown.

Cheesehole wrote on 3/12/2002, 1:25 PM

I think you discovered the best way to do that, which is to render it as it's own file.

bcbarnes wrote on 3/12/2002, 2:24 PM

After setting the clip to play reverse video, can't you just slide (or is it slip - I can never remember) the event (ALT-mouse drag) to get it to the point you want it to start at. I've done this lots of times and it works pretty well.