Speeding up video?

fillengroovy wrote on 1/4/2008, 7:27 AM

I know that thgis topic has been talked about before, I just can't find results in any of my searches???
I am an artist who uses a screen recorder to capture my pieces being done. I have several events that add up to one total video and want to speed the whole thing up so that it can be viewed quickly. I tried rendering the whole batch so that it is one event and then dragging the end to the left to shorten the event. When I play it back it is still the same speed. I would like to view this at like 500X the original speed to cut a 4 hour video to about 10 min.
Help please.

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Chienworks wrote on 1/4/2008, 7:48 AM

Hold the Ctrl key down while dragging. You can speed it up 4X this way. 4 passes will get you to 256K, then for the last pass speed it up 1.954x

fillengroovy wrote on 1/4/2008, 8:00 AM

Thanks Chien! That did it. Now do I need to render that in or just save it, say for YouTube?

fillengroovy wrote on 1/4/2008, 8:01 AM

Also, when you say four passes, are you rendering inbetween each pass?

Chienworks wrote on 1/4/2008, 1:54 PM

Each pass is a render. In Vegas "save" only saves the project (.vf) file; it doesn't create a video output file.

fillengroovy wrote on 1/4/2008, 5:15 PM

Thanks Chien!

fillengroovy wrote on 1/18/2008, 10:32 AM

OK I am experiencing a new problem here. I have sped up my vid and find that each time I do this it seems to shrink the video verticaly adding a black boarder on top and bottom? as I speed it more it gets larger. The picture that I am drawing is of the planet earth and it goes from a nice round globe, to in the end an oval. That's how much its distorting it. Any suggestions?

Kennymusicman wrote on 1/18/2008, 10:42 AM

my initial thought would be aspect ratio is wrong somewhere

fillengroovy wrote on 1/18/2008, 2:02 PM

I wish I knew what that means...