Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 and slow motion

Aims wrote on 10/7/2005, 11:48 PM

Hi,

I just upgraded to Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 6.0, and I'm still learning all the new tricks I can do with it. Is there a way to add a slow motion effect to a clip in Platinum, or am I out of luck?

Thanks!

Aims

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 10/8/2005, 6:24 AM

The simplest thing to do is to hold the Ctrl key and mouse button down and stretch the end of the clip out to the right. The farther you drag it, the slower it will play. You can slow it down to 1/4 speed this way. Likewise, you can Ctrl-squish it to the left to make it play up to 4x faster.

Tim L wrote on 10/8/2005, 7:21 PM

You can also right-click on an event in the timeline, select properties, then manually enter the playback rate (i.e. 0.8 to run at 80% of original speed, etc.)

Stretching out as ChienWorks suggested will keep your entire event and stetch it out. ie a 10 second clip stretched out to 20 seconds will run at 50% speed, but will still have everything from the original 10 second clip.

Right-clicking and selecting properties will keep the event length the same, so you would have to manually drag the end of the event out to see all of the vent. If you have a 10 second clip and right click, select properties, and set playback to 0.50, you will still have just a 10 second clip in the timeline -- the first 5 seconds of your event playing back in slow motion.

Tim L