VeloEnvel looses Snapped Ends?

Grazie wrote on 5/27/2006, 2:15 AM

OK, put a Velocity Envelope into an Event. Easy - done.

Now pepper with a few POINTS; season with some adjustments UP and DOWN to get the overall clip length to change - slower, the VeloEnvel makes the clip L o n g e r - Yeah? OK? Now "extend" the clip so that the Event's end NOTCH appears. Meaning that you now have ALL the media on view. Trouble is, the end-NOTCH doesn't "snatch". Try it WITHOUT VeloEnvel - Snatch! WITH VeloEnvel - no-Snatch .. now, didn't we have this on another feature too? Was it Extend-Event, and the end snatch was missing, and now in V6d it is cured? Another similarity is . .wait for it . . that the beginning of the EVENT snatch works! Well, it's consistent then!!

Please test . . .

Grazie

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jaegersing wrote on 5/27/2006, 2:43 AM

Hi Grazie. Just tried it and confirmed what you say. I think it is because the event length is no longer an exact number of frames when you apply the velo envelope. Vegas seems to want to snap to the frame before or the frame after, just not on the event end itself.

I suggest you shorten the velo'd clip to the nearest frame boundary. I know Vegas can work magic, but it's probably asking for trouble if you have a lot of video clips with such odd lengths. e.g. remember the infamous black frame problem?

Richard

Grazie wrote on 5/27/2006, 3:00 AM

Hmmm .. I accept what you are saying as possibility. IMHO - needs to be improved.

Grazie

jaegersing wrote on 5/27/2006, 10:02 AM

Hi Grazie. I agree that this should be improved. However, I also speak as a Canopus user who has been asking them for years to give us the ability to vary the speed of the video clip with keyframes. So far, there is only a separate (stand alone) utitlity that provides some basic speed ramping that is nowhere near what Vegas provides.

So yes it could be better. But it could be much worse too!

Richard