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stretching the audio for a photo montage
I’m editing with vegas5 and excalibur4, making a photo montage with 50 pictures to a song. I used the gap wizzard for disolves and PSB for zooming in and out…..My problem is I still had about 6 pictures left after the song ended…What do I do about these 6 pictures? Can i stretch the song without effecting the quality?
Thanks for your help…….Gary -
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I would shrink the pictures instead. Select ALL of the pictures and press “G”. Now hold down the CTRL key and “resize” the last image so that it ends with the song. Because they are grouped, ALL of the images will be shrunk by the same amount. Then the montage will be the same length as the song.
Edward Troxel
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I stretched music the other night on a project I was working on. Only about a 2 second stretch. Quite noticable.
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I stretched music the other night…
A 2 sec. stretch, as you found out, is asking a lot of a song.
However, Edward was talking about stretching the pictures to match the music (I’ve done this several times myself), not the other way around.Mike
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It actually did not turn out that bad. The music was drum beat and bass. Started out fast but the slowed down version with a lower base was alright. Had it been any more than I stretched it I would have done it differently.
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SVV is editing software, so… If I were you I would edit the song and copy a few beats and paste them. Always works for me.
Good luck
Barend
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It actually did not turn out that bad.
If you right-click on the track and select properties, it brings up a “Time stretch / pitch shift” options menu. I have yet to play with it but it’s my understanding that this may help fix the sound somewhat.
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I don’t get this. I reeeeeallly don’t get this.
I understand the need to “fit” – but surely you could “creatively” make an emphasis of something to apply 0.5 sec here or there and you’d get your 2 seconds? Failing that, how about some blank in and out at the front or end? A stutter? A SLMO of a sequence? There is much to do to not just “pad-out” but to enhance your work. I’m sorry, but not being able to fit all your 50 photos TO the music I think – IMHO – is NOT the real problem here.
Or maybe I haven’t truly understood your issue . . ? If so I apologise,
Best regards
Graham Bernard
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I really do apologise . .it was the AUDIO that was too short – Me totally bad!
Graham Bernard
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Aaah well, nobody’s perfect.
Keep trying, make mistakes and learn!
Barend
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