Unlocking(?) Frame size

Prosumer wrote on 3/4/2004, 7:05 PM
Here is my dilemna (aside from trying to teach myself this program..)...

When using a basic movie editor, such as Windows MM2, if I wanted to slow down a clip, I dropped that effect on the clip, and slowed the clip down while increasing the length...for example, if the clip was 10 seconds, my new clip is 20 seconds at half speed...
NOW, with vegas, when I go to properties and drop it to .5 playback speed, OR put in a velocity envelope at 50% speed, the clip size stays the same! The only way I can slow down the clip and increase the size is by holding control and dragging the edge...which is an inexact science...

Is there any way I can have my slow downs (through properties or envelopes) automatically make the clip longer so nothing is cut off at the end?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

Comments

kevgl wrote on 3/4/2004, 7:15 PM
Right click on the clip and select "insert velocity envelope". Right click on the small square on the green envelope band (it'll be on the far left of the clip) and select "set to". You can now type in any speed between -100% and 300%. You can then double click anywhere on the envelope to add more control points.

Cheers
HPV wrote on 3/4/2004, 7:22 PM
Hold down the ctrl key while you drag the right edge of an event. You can go down to .250 speed (1/4) or up 3.00 (3x). If you need slower or varialble speeds you'll have to use velocity envelopes.
Craig H.
kevgl wrote on 3/4/2004, 7:33 PM
Ah - i get what he means now.
Not what either HPV or I were thinking.

He wants to have the clip length double when he sets v envelope to 50% say, but that the ctrl drag isn't a way of accurately setting 50% either.

Hmmm

I spose you could select the clip, make it half speed. Open the edit details window (alt 4) and type in the new duration at double the length.

Cheers
HPV wrote on 3/4/2004, 7:44 PM
Ahhh, change the speed in the properties setting and then drag the clip until you see the "end of media in event" notch on the top of the event. It's an upside down triangle that is clear in color. It's the point where a event will start looping if you keep dragging it out.

Craig H.
jetdv wrote on 3/4/2004, 7:52 PM
He wants to have the clip length double when he sets v envelope to 50% say,

Exactly what the Velocity wizard in Excalibur does!
PeterWright wrote on 3/4/2004, 7:57 PM
The notch will only appear if the event on timeline is the whole captured media clip, which it often isn't.

Another way to make it exactly half speed, double click on the event to create a selected zone, the duration of which appears in the bottom right hand of the timeline. Drag the right hand edge of the blue highlighted zone and watch the numbers change till they're twice the original, then Ctrl-Drag the right hand edge of the event till it reaches the new edge of the highlighted zone.
Prosumer wrote on 3/5/2004, 6:38 AM
Thanks so much for the help! Will try them all when I get home from work...

BillyBoy wrote on 3/5/2004, 9:33 PM
Two basic ways to slow down.

1. Drag the end of the event right. This ADDS time by adding frames thus slowing the action down. An original clip that's 10 seconds dragged out to 20 seconds will play at half speed.

2. You can slow down and not change time by dropping a Event velocity envelope. Here you can slow down or speed up and keep the same time span.

With # 2 you can slow down, pause and then go into reverse.