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ralphied wrote on 1/12/2003, 8:40 PM
Yes. You can either slow down the motion or speed it up. Place the cursor at either the beginning or the end of the event you want to modify. The icon should change to what looks like a "frame" symbol with a double arrow line. Click the right mouse button and press the 'CTRL' key, then drag the cursor. You should see a little squiggly line beneath the cursor icon. If you drag the event to length it (stretch it out), you add slow motion (increase playback); if you drag the event to shorten it (compress it), you add fast motion (decrease playback).
wiscoy wrote on 1/12/2003, 9:18 PM
That is WAY cool!!! Thank you ralphied! I am having way too much fun with this software. ;-)

-Jill
holo wrote on 1/13/2003, 5:56 AM
....I know exactly what you mean Jill. The more I play with VF2 the more I learn which only makes me want to try new effects etc !

Only trouble is that it took a while to convince my wife that nothing "untoward" was going on whilst I was on the computer so often :)

Oh well, back to my current VF project..........

Cheers

Nick
ralphied wrote on 1/13/2003, 8:05 AM
Jill,

The one thing you'll notice with the slow motion implemented in the VF software is that rendering times, even to native DV format, can be long. If you have a digital camcorder, what I've found to work well is to capture the video while the camcorder itself is playing back in slow motion. This way, you capture slow motion in native DV format and there is no increase in VF rendering times -- it's just like regular speed recording.

Then, to take this even further, you can achieve "super slow motion" by slowing down the captured slow motion. This works great for those special football plays of my son's games when the action is just too fast.

Nick, I know what you mean about having to explain to the skeptical wife that you're really working on something productive and not exploring the "dark side" of the internet on those late nights. The key is when you produce a video that even the wife's family says is really neat and must have taken a lot of time to do.

Ralph.
BillyBoy wrote on 1/14/2003, 12:05 AM
A comment about slow motion. Again I should remind I'm using Vegas, and my memory of VideoFactoy is fading fast, since I haven't used it for over a year so forgive me, if I sometimes ask dumb things. I just forgot.

With Vegas, if you right click on a event there is a sub menu that pops up. Under that there is a switch option. From there you can select resample. If VF has that, use it. It forces a resample of what you just stretched out when it renders, making the slow motion silky smooth.

Vegas also has something VF doesn't, at least I think it doesn't a velocity envelope. That allows staged slow motion. where you can set points along any event and in effect speed up, slow down, speed up again, even stop and reverse. Just in case you're thinking of upgrading. Just one of many little extras VF's big brother has.
IanG wrote on 1/14/2003, 2:12 AM
Alas, they're not options in VF. It still gives good results though.

Ian G.
Chienworks wrote on 1/14/2003, 6:27 AM
BillyBoy, SonicFoundry added resample by default whenever a clip's speed has been changed. I believe this was introduced in 2.0b
BillyBoy wrote on 1/14/2003, 9:59 AM
Wow Kelly, they did? That just on Video Factory or Vegas too?
Chienworks wrote on 1/14/2003, 1:01 PM
If i recall correctly, it's just in VideoFactory ... since it doesn't have the option to let you choose it or not. They figured that VideoFactory users would always want it anyway and wouldn't want to be confused trying to use the function.