Splitting Video When Playback Speed Has Changed

RixWare wrote on 5/29/2001, 9:48 AM
There are several ways to change the playback speed of video in VV and I use them all. But once the playback speed of a section of video has been changed with a velocity envelope, splitting one region into two regions is troublesome. The split gets performed on the underlying video -- NOT the video as it is being played back.

For example, say I have a piece of video 4 seconds long. Using the velocity envelope, I slow it to 25% so that the first second of the video now takes 4 seconds to play. Then I decide to split the region in half, so I put the cursor in the middle and hit S for Split.

What happens is that the split occurs halfway through the ORIGINAL video. So now I have two regions: The first starts at the beginning of the original video and plays at 25%, the second starts at the MIDDLE of the original video and plays at 25%.

Does anyone know a way around this problem?

I know that you can also slow down video by stretching it (by holding down CTRL as you lengthen the region) or by adjusting the playback speed on the properties page. This problem does not happen when you change the playback speed by either of these methods.

But I am using a velocity envelope so that the video gradually slows down, then speeds up again.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Comments

theigloo wrote on 6/1/2001, 8:13 PM
I have exactly the same problem/beef. The velocity envelope is great for changing the playback speed over time, but why can't Vegas re-compute the new event length?

I also hate the fact that If I take a 4 second long video and increase it's speed to 400%, I then have 4 copies of my fast clip. I have to manully trim it.

Am I missing something? I must be.
Rockaway17 wrote on 6/1/2001, 8:33 PM
I don't like the fact that you can only do 400% increase of speed, and not any more. I mean, it only lets you do 300% speed if you use the envelope, but you can do 400% if you use Properties. There's no possible way to increase the speed over 400% without rendering to a new track and then increasing the new rendered event. But that gets tedious. Hopefully this is another problem that will be fixed in Vegas 3.
RixWare wrote on 6/5/2001, 10:54 AM
Hey, SF folks, is this a feature or a bug? Do you have any advice?

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SonyEPM wrote on 6/5/2001, 11:14 AM
Bug. The next major upgrade will fix this.