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farss wrote on 11/9/2004, 6:33 PM
Just keep rendering it out and repeat the process?
There's usually no problem making this go faster, it's SloMo where you hit a wall. With speed up you're just throwing frames away.

Bob.
jetdv wrote on 11/9/2004, 6:38 PM
You can use CTRL-Resize to get 4x. Combined with the Velocity Envelope you can get up to 12x in a single render.

To simplify going really fast, use the Time Bandit tool in the Veggie Toolkit
jbl375 wrote on 11/9/2004, 11:20 PM
I render a clip of 30 seconds by 300% velocity for testing. It seems that Vegas renders this clip for 3 times. The resulting clip is also 30 seconds but it is just a fastward playback of the original clip for 3 times.

Do you know how to config Vegas to render the clip for just 1 time? My clip is about one hour whcih I want to render it as about 20 seconds.

Thanks.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/9/2004, 11:50 PM
After speeding up the clip - Vegas does not alter the length of it on the timeline - THAT is up to you. It is VERY easy for you to do this. Look for the little "notch" that appears within the clip - as that indicates the point where the speeded up clip will actually start to loop. Just drag the right edge of the clip towards the left until it snaps to the first of those notches.

As you seem new to this... you may not have a clue as to what that little "notch" is that I am talking about (I would not be surprised - and I am not expecting it will be immediately obvious).

Here is an easy way for you to see what I am talking about.

Put ANY clip you have on the timeline. The clip is initially sized to be the correct size for the clip (if it is a 1 m inute clip - it will take up 1 minute on the timeline). Now grab the right edge of that clip - and stretch it towards the right side (making it longer). THERE - you will see the little notch that I am talking about appear JUST as you stretch the clip beyond it's "natural" size.

By default Vegas loops video when it is stretched beyond the "natural" length (either because you have speeded it up - or by simply making the clip longer on the timeline than it shoudl be). You can set the properties of the clip so that it freezes the last frame instead of looping. - BUT - you don;t need to worry about that for your problem.
jbl375 wrote on 11/10/2004, 12:00 AM
How to set the properties of the clip so that it freezes the last frame instead of looping?
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/10/2004, 12:12 AM
Right clip on the clip - uncheck "loop".

Are we starting to make this TOO easy for you?

and... did my other suggestion help at all? Just be interested to know that is all :-) Thanks for asking the question.