[Daniel Hughes]

Ah sorry I should’ve said.

The event will appear to be the same length but it will still be stretched, if that makes sense. You simply have to expand the event normally until you have the rest of it there.

Here’s your event before:
|——–|

And after you’ve changed it to 0.5 playback rate:
|——–| – – – – |

So you grab the end of the event and expand it to get the other half, and you will get this:
|——————|

and that will be exactly a 0.5 slowed down version of the original clip.

I hope that makes sense…

Daniel Hughes
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[Daniel Hughes]

That’s funny, I thought I was the only one who used that face!

:>

Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
United Kingdom

[Daniel Hughes]

If your footage isn’t of high enough frame rate you can interpolate if you have after effects, if not there are great programs like MotionPerfect and SlowMotion that are worth trying out.
They will generate the missing gaps between your sparse frames of your .AVI for you to achieve smooth slow motion.

I’ve used MotionPerfect before – ’tis excellent.
I actually 4x slowed down some 24p footage to 5.994fps, and interpolated with MotionPerfect to ~1000fps. Three seconds of 1080p footage: 17GB! But it was so excellent and smooth and gave me huge fidelity to slow it down.

That would probably be for future reference, as your composition looks great as it is!

Daniel Hughes
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United Kingdom

[Daniel Hughes]

Sorry! Hi again.

Didn’t you want this footage in 4x slow motion?

Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
United Kingdom

[Daniel Hughes]

Hey Luke!

You can alter the speed of a a clip in a couple of ways. You can stretch it, similar to the way you expand a clip, Hold CTRL and grab the end of the clip on the timeline and stretch it to your desired length. This will stretch the video so slow motion will be achieved. You can also do this to speed the footage up. The limit is 4x slower (0.25x original speed) and 4x faster.

If you want your stretched footage to be exactly half or exactly some other percentage value, you can Right Click on the clip on the timeline and go to Properties. You will see text boxes with ‘Playback Rate’ and ‘Undersample Rate’. Choose the ‘Playback Rate‘ box, and set the value to 0.5 for half speed.

If you want your 60 fps footage to be progressive normal speed 30 fps, you can make ‘Undersample rate’ 0.5, and it will skip every second frame.

Unfortunately I am not the king of output format knowledge, but I would probably have went with MPEG 2 for internet or AVI for uncompressed rawness, perhaps for exhibition. But I’m not sure, I’d ask someone else about formats.

Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
United Kingdom

[Daniel Hughes]

If you’re not in a big hurry to learn for a project or anything, I’d check out some tutorials but I do recommend trying to work some of it out for yourself. You will be able to make more sense of things.

I’m in my late teens and Vegas is something that’s just always been ‘there’. I started teaching myself when I was around 13, editing stick figure animations and such, and now I know Vegas better than I know how to operate a fridge. You can pick it up very easily, it’s really simple and logical.

Training videos are good I guess, but for me it’s like learning French in your British school; you would pick it up a lot better if you just moved to France to work it out for yourself.

So yeah, check out tutorials but afterwards you should really try to just sit and get used to it. Grab some footage and play around with it, see what you can do, and you’ll pick it up in no time!

:>

Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
United Kingdom

[Daniel Hughes]

I’ve done this before, but it was an accident!
But I’m sure it involved individually masking each frame with Event Pan/Crop, and it was pretty horrible…

The only thing I can think of in Vegas is cookie cutter, which allows you to add a border to a generic masked shape like a circle or rectangle.

If you’re looking for something tight around your subject I think you may need to look to after effects or something, with motion tracking etc.

Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
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[Daniel Hughes]

Ah!!!

I was using Tools > Burn Disc > DVD… in Sony Vegas 10.

[John Rofrano] “The project should be 23.976 and not 24.000”
The project was 23.976 but when it rendered to burn the DVD it would keep changing to 24.000. I knew it was that all along! It’s so great to have a pro back me up!

Thanks very much for this, I never thought of doing that at all.

Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
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[Daniel Hughes]

Hi Phil!

If your footage was 30p that is definitely the reason you’re having that strobing problem!

I have a pretty good idea to solve this but I’ll wait for your configuration report, if you wish.

Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
United Kingdom

[Daniel Hughes]

What Steve said is fine also, there are a couple of ways to do it. I tend to prefer my way because you can see the outline of the frame and where it’s going to be without having to use the preview as reference for getting it perfectly in the corner etc.

But we all have our preferences!

Just choose which way you like best and stick to it 🙂

There are two ways because you will find yourself in situations where you require both.

Daniel Hughes
Amateur Writer, Director,
Director of Photography
United Kingdom