Time Stretch Feature Request

Rednroll wrote on 5/7/2002, 8:43 PM
I wanted to get everyone's thoughts on a helpful feature, which seems would be very easy to be implimented in Vegas.

I would like to see an option to be able to have the length of an event displayed on the waveform. If you select to do a "change length, preserve pitch", Vegas already calculates the original length and then displays the "New length" when you hold the Cntrl key and do a time stretch. This information is stored under the properties, when you right click on the waveform/event. I think displaying this information of "New Length" on top of the event would be a nicer feature. Especially when doing voice overs that have to be in a 30 second or 60 second lengths. If I have a voice over which is 61 seconds and I need to time stretch this to 60 seconds, it would be nice to just hold my control key and see the "New time" displayed as I stretch the event. I could also see the length of a take by trimming the ends, and therefore wouldn't have to rely so much on my stop watch when recording voice over sessions. Also, when I'm editing 3300 different events and they have to be .3,.5,1, and 3 seconds in length I could see the original length on the waveform, instead of moving my timeline start time and figuring it out from there.....right Dave Hill? :-)

Seems pretty easy displaying information Vegas is already calculating. Anyone agree?

Rednroll

Comments

PipelineAudio wrote on 5/7/2002, 9:04 PM
Got my vote

And how about also if you select a bunch of tracks you could stretch them all simultaneously too?
CDM wrote on 5/8/2002, 8:21 AM
you got my vote too, but honestly I've never found the stretch feature to sound good enough to affect a commercial voice over. Maybe +- 1/2 second on a 60 second spot, but even there I hear it.
ibliss wrote on 5/8/2002, 8:51 PM
Pipeline:

You CAN already stretch mutliple events at the same time (VV3) - they have to be grouped though, and then you just use Ctrl+click'n'drag the edge of one of the events. The events don't have to be lined up to start with either.

Mike K
PipelineAudio wrote on 5/8/2002, 9:07 PM
ibliss not stretch, timestretch
Chienworks wrote on 5/8/2002, 9:14 PM
In the properties for the events you can select either "change pitch" or "preserve pitch". In the first case the stretch will be a simple stretch. In the second case it will be a timestretch.
ibliss wrote on 5/9/2002, 8:17 PM
Pipeline:

But that's exactly what Ctrl+click'n'draggin (hold down Ctrl, then left click'n'drag the edge of an event) does in Vegas (by default) - timestretch. That's if your definition of time stretching audio is making the duration longer or shorter without changing the pitch.

So you can timestretch multiple events at the same time.

Mike K
bgc wrote on 5/10/2002, 3:22 PM
You can see this information already:

1. Go to View > Edit Details
2. Either dock the window or have it floating somewhere.
3. Make sure the Edit Details window is set to Show: Events or Show: Selected Events
4. Select the event you want to timestretch
5. Hold CTRL+drag and you'll see the new length in the edit window under the Length column.

bgc