Time Code, stretching/shrinking, true elapsed time

blueman2 wrote on 3/12/2012, 5:32 PM

I have video clip that I need to show in stop action, by shrinking the length. I know how to do this. I also need to show,in the video, a digital count of the time elapsed. I know how to do this also. The problem is, after shrinking the video, the the time clock (time code) shows the new compressed time rather than the true elapsed time, which is what I need to show. In other words, I need to show the timecode clock sped up as well as the video so that the end number of the clip is the actual end number of the true elapsed time. If anyone knows how I can do that or find some workaround to achieve the same result, I'd appreciate it.

I'm using vegas 11 and windows xp

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Chienworks wrote on 3/12/2012, 5:39 PM

Try dragging & dropping the timecode effect onto the clip in the project media pool.

The other thing i've done often is to render out a new copy of the clip with the timecode superimposed and then use this new clip for stretching/shrinking.

blueman2 wrote on 3/12/2012, 6:16 PM

"Try dragging & dropping the timecode effect onto the clip in the project media pool."

Tried dragging timecode (seconds) into media window and it won't allow me to do that. Probably because it is a video event, not a media event. If you have done this before, please let me know what I'm missing. In the meantime, I believe # 2 might work and I'm testing that now.
be missing something.

Chienworks wrote on 3/13/2012, 1:10 AM

Any event is a "media event", so it should work just fine. Not sure why it didn't for you, other than maybe the Studio version doesn't support it.