Video project question

Salamander wrote on 3/13/2004, 5:32 AM
I am working on a video project and have a question. I have a series of tapes I have captured and am editing into one video. I have one event? clip? tape that I want to run at a faster speed than the rest. I want it to be fast motion, while the rest of the video plays at normal speed.

Is there a way to fix this before I finish editing and rendering?

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farss wrote on 3/13/2004, 5:35 AM
A few ways in Vegas:
1) Velocity envelope, lets you ramp speed up and down.
2) Playback rate, in media properties, right click event.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/13/2004, 5:35 AM
Use the velocity envelope, set to a + number. Then render and insert in desired location within the program.

J--
jetdv wrote on 3/13/2004, 5:52 AM
An alternative to manually changing the playback rate is to hold down the CTRL key while resizing the clip. This works well if you want a constant speed change (and also works with audio). If you want to vary the speed, use the Velocity Envelope.
Salamander wrote on 3/13/2004, 3:03 PM
How do you ramp up the speed, or set a + number?
farss wrote on 3/13/2004, 3:52 PM
Insert a velocity envelope into the track and use that to control the speed, is covered fairly well in the manual and online help.
What you jave to careful about is that the representation of clip length on the TL is no longer accurate.
Best to do it separatley and render it out to a new track / file.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/13/2004, 3:57 PM
> How do you ramp up the speed, or set a + number?

Right click on the event that you want change the velocity on and select Insert\Remove Velocity Envelope from the popup context menu. There should now be a green line in the center of the clip. Move the line up to increate the velocity (+) and down to slow it down (-). You can also double click on it to add points so that you can keyframe the velocity.

~jr
Salamander wrote on 3/13/2004, 4:39 PM
Thanks everyone for the advice. This helped a lot.