Velocity Envelope duration

[Stephen Crye]

Thanks, Diane!

I really appreciate taking the time to watch.

Try it at 1080 full-screen (it will take a looongg time to buffer) to fully appreciate the video. Headphones if you don’t have speakers. At 1080 you will be able to see the lack of “real” 1080 clarity.

Regarding fog, the cam was already at the ambient temp of the air. Fog usually happens when you take a cold cam into a hotter, humid environment.

As it was, I built a little “tent” for the camera out of a milk crate and some nylon. I ran down the mountain to the Jeep when the big storm nailed me. I sat in the Jeep fretting about the shot I was missing, then I got the idea to build the “tent”. I sawed off the front of the crate, tied nylon around it, and set the cam on the ground using a little 6″ tripod, then put the crate over the cam and used the LCD in mirror-mode to frame the shot. The last three hours of shooting was under the tent.

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

[Mike Kujbida]

[Stephen Crye] “If I have already squeezed it by 12x, how can I squeeze it more if I don’t render it to an intermediate?”

Save the sped up event as a veg file (let’s call it speed-1.veg).
Import speed-1.veg into your project (“nesting” it) and apply the velocity envelope and do the Ctrl+drag think to it.
speed-1.veg was sped up 12X.
Applying these same techniques to it again speeds it up another 12X which means that your original event is now sped up 144X with no need for rendering to an intermediate format.
BTW, to avoid horrible ghosting/frame blending when doing this, I usually right-click the event, choose Properties and select “disable resample”.

“And, with a bunch of “raw” 12x squeezed clips in the timeline, rendering a long project is suuuuper slow.”

That’s the biggest drawback to nesting files so an intermediate may be a better choice. Only you can make that decision.

[Diane Sosnoski]

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the insight!