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Velocity cobntrol in Vegas Pro 10
Greetings all, new to the group!
I am used to using Corel Video Studio Pro X3, but I wanted to try something more powerful so I am trying Vegas pro 10.
I shot some 720p 60fps clips and am trying to get some smooth slow motion, and after looking at several tutorials on youtube I decided that adding a velocity envelope was the best way to do this. So, as per the tutorials, I added a velocity envelope the the part of the clip I want to slow down, and dragged that part of the green line way down to the bottom. Now when I try to watch in the preview window, when it gets to that portion of the video, I hear the sound going, but the video stops playing, then after it passes that part, I get the part playing further on in the video. It’s almost like I told it to freeze the video for 30 seconds or so, and delay playing it, which is not my intention. I tried different settings with the preview quality, same result. Also tried the ram preview, again, same thing. Unless I’m doing it wrong..
I watched tutorials last night till my vision was blurry, but still am getting the same result. I don’t think its my hardware lacking, I am running W7 64 bit with 12GB ram and 1GB video card. (Vegas is also 64 bit)
I must be missing something here, but I don’t know what. I really like the idea of being able to speed up or slow down parts with the green line in the VE, but I have to figure out how to get it to work first!
Can anyone help?
On another note, the youtube tutorials are ok, but is there a good “vegas for noobs” tutorial somewhere?
thanks in advance!
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2 Replies
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Are you bouble clicking on the envelope line to add points? Add a point where you want it to START slowing down and then drag the last point at the end of the event down, otherwise your asking it to slow down from beginning to end. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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Be advised that the Velocity envelope goes from +300% to -100% so you need to pay attention the the speed value as you’re dragging it up or down.
The advantage of using points as Danny mentioned is that you can right-click each one and set a specific value.
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