Hey, no, i did it the hard way, i used video, then took a shap shot of each thing i wanted (ended up with about 200 snapshots) So yea....is there any easy way i could speed up the video, but not the audio or anything like that? Thanks, Later. Oh, the pictures are named like Image0, Image1, Image10, Image100. So yea...how can i do this? Later (again)

-William

Wow, that was a fast response!

I dont get what you did.

Do you have 1 AVI file?
or 100 .jpgs?

if you have one AVI file, hold control and drag the event smaller, it will speed it up.
If you have 100 .jpgs - do what he was saying above.

Chienworks answered your question. That's how you do it. It is pretty much a one click operation. After you have the individual pics all on the timeline, render to an AVI file, then put that AVI file back onto the timeline, hold the Ctrl key, click on the end of the AVI file, and move it one way or the other to shrink or stretch the event (make it faster or slower).

The problem you'll have with your snapshot names is that they will be sorted alphabetically rather than numerically, so you'll get this sequence: 1, 10, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 11, 110, 111, .... 119, 12, 120, 121 .... which is probably not what you need. You may have to rename all the files first so that they are image 001, image 002, image 003, etc.

If I understand what you've got and what you're trying to do, an alternative to renaming all your stills as Chienworks recommends nearby might be:

-import all your stills into the media pool. Here's how: In the Explorer window within Vegas, browse to the folder with the stills, hit Control-A to select all, then right-click on the selection and choose "add to media pool" (for now, I'd keep everything else out of that folder)

-Go to Options, Tools, Editing tab. In the "new still image length" box input a value that will extend each still as long as you want. If you want to start with 1 still = 1 frame, and then render to AVI and time-stretch that file as a nearby post recommends, you might input .034,which is 1 frame at the NTSC standard 29.970 frame rate (that's what I use as a pretty-close length; hopefully someone more knowledgeable might jump in with a more exact figure)

-open the media pool, and click on the "modified" column header. I'm hoping your images will be sorted by the time/date they were captured from your camera into your PC. If so, you'll see that they'll be alternately sorted by ascending or descending date each time you click on that "modified" header.

-Once sorted to your liking, hit Ctrl-A in the media pool to select all the images, then while they are still selected click and drag the first image (I'm guessing you want the first image in your movie to be the one with the earliest date) up to the timeline. That should put all the stills up there, each taking the length of time specified in your Preferences.

-you can render that out as an NTSC DV AVI, then put that file back up on the timeline and stretch it as recommended nearby.

I hope this addresses your problem, and that it's not too late.

Greg

This may help, when I've needed to do this it sure came in handy:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320167


- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

I never knew you could do that!

I sure I wish I'd have known that a looong time ago!

Edit: Something that makes it even easier is this this little freeware utility!

Mutts & KW excellent info. ( thinks, "Must read XP for Idiots . . . . " )

Loved the XP rename thingy ... .

Grazie

Sadly, that Windows bulk rename function still won't produce filenames that are usable by the "open image sequence" function.

I suppose it could be done with a batch in DOS, using the For .. Do, Ren and Shift function. Could probably rename 1000 files in less than 3 seconds in DOS.

Good old DOS, what?
Tor

It's not that hard to write some VB to do it either however the Sony still cameras do give the files names that will correctlu sequence, I assume most of the other brands of DSC do the same so this shouldn't be the issue everyone seems to thing it is. What'e even better the cameras retain the lst used file number even after you reformat the media, damn problem is I cannot workout how to set it back to zero, but then someone has stolen my DSC F828 so it'll be a while before I get to play with one again.

Bob.

There are dozens of freeware products that will rename in the manner you wish. Just download and go. Go to shareware.com or similar site and search for rename.

>>...still won't produce filenames that are usable by the "open image sequence" function...

Yes it will.

See my link in this thread where I said, "Edit: Something that makes it even easier is this this little freeware utility!"

That program positively does make importable image sequences.

I believe if I remember correctly, you need to name them to something like:

Image_####.jpg

Emphasis on the "Image_".

It does work.

Kentwolf, when i try it i get names in the form of image_0001 (1).bmp, image_0001 (2).bmp, etc. Not only does this still suffer the alphabetical vs. numerical problem, but Vegas doesn't enable the "Open still image sequence" checkbox with these names. *shrug* As far as i can tell, i followed your steps exactly.

You need to drop the parenthetical #'s. (1), (2), etc.

Using the utility I mentioned in the link above, it works.

I could *not* get it to name correctly using the stated WinXP methodlogy because it automatically adds the parenthetical #'s.

The utility in the link is freeware. It's pretty slick.