George Dean
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What happens when the beta trial version expires in January?
Best Regards……George
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The more places you put the question, more likely you will get an answer(s). I just didn’t know if you were coming back here to post the solutions for others that may read your thread in the future, so I jumped in with the link. Movie Studio Zen is another forum for Vegas questions I find helpful.
Best Regards……George
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Hi Alberto,
In your OP you stated “slowmotioned a little bit”, which is subjective, but would lead me to think you were slowing down the motion to about half (50%). If that is the case, when you film at 60p and put that footage in a 30p project, your slow motion is going to be smoother than regular speed footage shot at 24p and viewed at 24p.
The best we can do to smooth out slow motion is to shoot it in slow motion, but if we are picking segments after the shoot to slow down in post, I shoot everything at 60p and then speed up those segment I want at regular (30p) speed. This avoids the ghosting because slowing down 60p to 30p is simply a matter of taking out every other frame and what we have left then is exactly what the camera would have recorded at 30p. Am I making sense? In this case you would disable sampling to avoid the ghosting in a progressive project.
On the other hand if you are shooting action shots, it’s better to shoot them at 60p, put them in a 60p project, disable sampling, render them to a 60p video, which will produce exceptional smoothness compared to 24p. This does not provide any slow motion, so you then would use a program such as ProDad ReSpeedr ($99 USD) which I think does a much better job of producing slow motion than does Vegas Pro. ReSpeedr, like Twixtor, has several options for building slow motion video depending on the scene and time to render and the quality you select. And they have a trial version you can download to try it out. Also, this time of year ProDad often runs specials on their software products, so you may be able to snag a deal.
If you shoot a sequence at 60p and put that in ReSpeedr and set the slow motion at 180 fps (33%), bring that into Vegas Pro in a 60p project, I think you will be amazed at the smooth quality. At any rate, almost ALWAYS, disable sampling when producing progressive projects in Vegas Pro., then shoot the appropriate fps speed for the action you are filming and if your budget permits, pickup a copy of ReSpeedr (after trying out the trial) to compliment your productions.
As for the capabilities of Vegas Pro, actually slowing down video 50%, to me, usually is acceptable. However it is not unusual for pricey NLE’s to require plug-in’s or doing round-about processing with a 3rd party program to accomplish certain task. I have no idea what you paid for Vegas, but let’s say it is priced at $300, which is pretty cheap considering all it does. Then there is the Twixtor plugin for Vegas priced at $330. If Magix spent the time to develop Twixtor to add into Vegas it would jump the price to around $600!! For those who don’t need slow motion graphics they would complain about the high price for features they don’t use. And for us that do use the feature of slow motion, there would be little to gain cost wise. Lucky for some there is alternative like ReSpeedr, which in my opinion is not as good as Twixtor, but also not as pricey. At least we have some options depending on our budgets.
Can Magix put something into Vegas Pro as capable as Twixtor without raising the price? Of course they can, but the development cost would be a bit hit to their profits, but we never know what they are working on for the future….could be something in Vegas Pro 17…..maybe!
Best Regards……George
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Here is the answer to Peter’s question as he posted in the Magix Vegas Creative Software forums….
Best Regards……George
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Alberto,
Out of curiosity, why are you shooting action at 24p as opposed to 60p. I have better results shooting at 60p in a 30p (or 24p) project and then those sections I want in slow motion I already have the extra frames to use without having to create them or duplicate them in post.
Best Regards……George
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Alberto,
Although Twixtor will do the best job, if you have been paying the upgrade for Vegas Pro, the cost is a bit pricy. You could also try ProDad ReSpeedr (they have a trial version), and better than that you could use DaVinci Resolve 15 Public Beta (free version). ReSpeedr and Resolve are stand alone but you can render out with a high quality intermediate to bring back into Vegas Pro.
Best Regards……George
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Hi Tom,
Open Pan & Crop on the 100×100 event, right click anywhere in the display and select ‘Match Source Aspect’. Maybe that will solve your issue.
Best Regards……George
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Hi Erica,
Edward provided an excellent answer to your issue, either subscribe to his excellent product Excalibur, which provides the automation you asked for, and a whole lot more, or use the free script he provided previously. I tried this script in Vegas Pro 13 and Vegas Pro 16 and it worked well.
The script works on all events that have been selected, or all the events in a project if you do not select any, pretty slick.
The script can be used ‘as is’ for Sony Vegas Pro. If you want to use it with Magix Vegas Pro, change the line
‘import Sony.Vegas;’
to
‘import ScriptPortal.Vegas;’
Thank You Edward, you are a gentleman and a scholar for taking the time to provide this script.
Best Regards……George
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Hi Edward, would that be with Excalibur, or do you have a free script? I don’t show it in my list of scripts and I pecked around a bit in the link you provided, but nothing came up, or the other hand I didn;t spend a lot of time as I don’t need it, but that would be good for her I think.
Best Regards……George
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Awh, that makes more sense to me, Thank You Jorma. However, I don’t think there is a way to increase their size although by reducing the ‘Thumbnails to show in video events:’ (Preferences, Video) may help.
Best Regards……George