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Another freeze frame issue
I’ve got about 25 places in a training film that I’ve created freeze frames using the velocity envelope. Now I’m making adjustments and have been asked to insert a few more. I’m missing something because when I insert velocity points and create a 30 second pause, all the points downstream are not moving accordingly to keep the freezes in the correct place. Ripple edit doesn’t seem to pull the envelope settings along with everything else.
Also, I was trying to split audio/video at one point to insert something completely new and at the split it’s chopping out a piece of video whether ripple edit is on or off. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong there. Thanks for any advice.Steven
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[Steven J Casey] “when I insert velocity points and create a 30 second pause, all the points downstream are not moving accordingly to keep the freezes in the correct place.”
I’m not exactly following how you are creating the pause, but I would suggest splitting the event so that the envelope points stay with the same part of the media.
Gary
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I’m using the velocity envelope with four nodes. Say at 1:00 I want to hold a freeze frame for 30 seconds so that a pop up message can be read without the video proceeding. I created a node at 1:00, added node two directly under node 1 and set it to zero velocity. Then at 1:30 node 3 is set at zero velocity and node 4 directly over node 3 brings us back to 100%. It creates a notch where time stands still. All I had to do was split the audio track even with node 1 and move the downstream audio (right hand side) to line up with node 4, which kept everything synched up. Problem I’m having now is I’m having to place more of these in the middle of things, with existing “notches” in place on both sides of the cursor. When I add more velocity nodes it causes everything downstream to move out of place where I’d carefully set these zero-velocity points. Maybe the better workflow would’ve been to split everything and use snapshots for the freeze frames instead of velocity envelopes?
The other thing that I can’t figure out is that I’ve tried to split the video file and create snapshots at this point, thinking that once split, auto ripple would lock everything together. But, upon splitting the track, it’s chopping out about 10 seconds of the video to the right of the cursor. It’s done this with ripple turned on and turned off, so I’m confused as to what is causing this.
Thanks Gary.
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It’s certainly an interesting condundrum, Steven. If only we could “stick” a node onto a certain frame, there would be no problem.
I think the best approach is to render out the section that are already done on a new track, then you can add your new freeze areas without worying about messing up what comes afterwards.
Gary
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Ha! That seems so obvious now that you said it. Brilliant. Thank you my man, thank you.
Steven
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