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  • extreme timestretch

    Posted by Krisztian Kertesz on June 9, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    Hi!
    I have an interesting problem here, maybe one without a possible solution, but thought I’d ask here…
    I’ve bought a short clip from a photo/video stock site:

    https://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/3596696_fly_into_galaxy.php?id=3596696

    It’s 20 seconds long, but in fact I’d need it to play 8,5 minutes! long, to match a song, an mp3 tune played along with it. I know that short clips like that just doesn’t meant to be stretched in such an extreme way, but still, is there any way I could achieve this effect?
    I already asked about it on another forum, and I was instructed to use Frame Blending. Actually, it had some nice results overall, but in the parts where the inner, light side of a galaxy changes to a black, starry background again, it’s quite the mess…here’s an example of what I’m speaking about:

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/fp2yae

    So my question is, is there any workaround or special trick that could do it for me? or should I just forget the whole thing? 🙁
    Any help would be very much welcome!
    Thanx!

    Krisztian Kertesz replied 18 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Ron Coy

    June 9, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    no. You’re pretty much screwed there.

    You could, however, let the transition happen in realtime, and slow down everything before and everything after that transition.

  • Krisztian Kertesz

    June 9, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    hmm, not a bad idea, will try out, thx!

  • Steve Roberts

    June 9, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    You could try downloading the Twixtor demo. Then slow down the clip to 50%, precomp it, slow it down to 50% again, and so on .. you’d have to do that 4-5 times to get it to eight minutes. You might have to render it each time — I don’t know if your system could handle the precomping.

    If you like it, buy Twixtor.

    I suggest the stepped 50% approach to give Twixtor something to work with, since going from :20 to 8:00 would be too much.

  • Krisztian Kertesz

    June 9, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    will check that out aswell! big thx man!

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