Slo-Mo video?

Eigentor wrote on 9/18/2009, 6:50 AM

I know I can <Ctrl> drag a clip to slow it down. Sometimes it becomes very jumpy, where it looks like it actually steps backwards every so often. Is that a result of too much slowing?
Also, I would like to be able to slow down during a clip, but not the entire clip. I can split it, but my prefernce would be to achieve this with an envelope or something. Any ideas? I am running VMS 9B.

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Chienworks wrote on 9/18/2009, 10:36 AM

The jumpiness is due to interlacing. It might help a little to turn off resampling (right-mouse-button click on event, resampling, disable). However the better solution is to de-interlace the clip.

Vegas Pro (not Platinum Pro Pack) has velocity envelopes. These are not available in the Studio versions. Also note that the velocity envelope only affects video; it doesn't alter the audio. About the best you can do in the Studio version is to do lots of little splits and stretch each one out a little more than the previous one. As a plus, this will slow down the audio too if you wish it.

Eigentor wrote on 9/21/2009, 5:17 AM

Thanks, I was afraid of that.
Don't know that slowing the audio would be a plus. I assume I can inhibit or ungroup or unripple to prevent the audio from being affected.

Chienworks wrote on 9/21/2009, 11:23 AM

Yep, ungroup the audio and video, then Ctrl-stretch will only affect the one you're touching.

It's just that many folks using the velocity envelope in Vegas Pro complain that it doesn't slow the audio down too. We sometimes forget that there are those who don't want the audio altered.