skip framing?

vicmilt wrote on 9/17/2007, 7:00 AM

Hi -

I know how to speed up footage in Vegas using velocity envelope.

But I've got a couple of one hour tapes I want to speed up to ten seconds. Doing this via Vegas takes about 4 or 5 iterations.

Is there any recommended HDV software that will do it in one step?
Must maintain 1080i final format.

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Comments

bakerja wrote on 9/17/2007, 7:40 AM

Try this:

Put your media on the timeline and instead of using velocity envelope, grab the right edge of the event and hold ctrl and drag to the left. This will time squeeze the event. Save the veg file, then open a new veg and use the previous veg as a nested veg. Squeeze the nested veg, save it as pass2.veg. Open a new veg and use pass2.veg as nested veg, time squeeze the veg, etc.

Get the picture? You can keep nesting until you get your hour long footage down to 10 seconds and only do one render.

JAB

apit34356 wrote on 9/17/2007, 7:58 AM

Vic, an effect you may want to consider is selecting a seq of 2 to 4 frames then skipping x frames to the next 2-4 frame selection, and so on to the end. A script could easily do this, just modify one of the length of selected events scripts that are free. If you need help modifying the script, Maybe JohnnyRob or Jetdv or anyone else could help you.

Mark Seibert wrote on 9/17/2007, 1:48 PM

Try using Tools > Scripting > Render Image Sequence. Set the Step Time to something very large - maybe every 5 seconds or even more? Render the sequence and then import it. Worked great for me in taking a 30 minute video down to 1 minute.