Nick White
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Thanks for chipping in.
Yeah that’s what I have discovered…it’s just that the Pan and Zoom FX window does NOT loop: it seems to see the new clip length as one. That was what caught me out, the different behaviour between the two.
Nick
Head: Hertz Music
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HAH! I was working on it when I read your post.
As I went back to it, I saw a little entry box in the Text Generator that is “Duration”. Changing that to 10 sec fixed the whole problem. So it is not quite right, but fixable.
If it was a standard thing between FX and Text Generation that they either recognised or did not, the stretching of the clip, I would (may ☹) not have been caught out. Never really tried animating text from within Text Generator, not by via FX (Pan and Crop.)
Nick
Head: Hertz Music
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Thank you George. You are correct about what I require.
I am just using the standard Vegas Text Generator. …sorry…BTW I use Movie Studio….sorry.
However, your instructions sound as if they would apply anyway. Just clip manipulation.
But why so complex? How come the text generator does not respond to a stretched clip? If I open up the Pan and Zoom, it already shows a stretched 5 second clip as a 10-second clip and behaves correctly. The Text Generator does not.
Nick
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One HUUUGE thing. AFAICS you can close the programme ad lose everything…settings output folder, blah. No question. …there seems NO WAY to save what you have been doing and exit. Screwed up. Not even any way to save settings to the exported video.
You are just playing and winging it.
An appalling behaviour. in any programme.
The guy that develops this stuff is very clever…no….brilliant….genius….but needs some real world experience.
Nick
Head: Hertz Music
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In case anyone is interested or can be helped by this:
– I have had heaps better results from Respeedr. Not yet sure why. Programme dev or my choice of source and settings?– I fed a SOC video to it; 50 fps, MTS format from a Panasonic camera.
I have to say that I am severely testing the programme, using two dogs playing, one with a long, thin, whippy tail, which flails about a lot and moves rapidly across the FOV.
The results were:
– up to 1/5th speed there were no or minimal artefacts in fast moving (across the field of view) objects…so…a dog’s long tail when it plays….. not following a fast boat, car etc.– the slomo is beautifully smooth: much better than using Vegas’s time stretch, which is a bit stop-start, like an old war movie :).
– That smoothness goes right up to -23 (1/23 speed), which was the highest I tried.
– Above the 1/5th level, small artefacts start to appear in the tail, at the tip.
– It is moving like a whip and is a tough call.– In the Start “menu” you can try the automatic subframe method, but never use the Frame Blend method: choose the (slower) Optical Flow subframe method. Frame Blend is the worst for artefacts and IMO needs to be removed, quicker or not. If it’s the default then the company will earn bad reviews by casual reviewers.
– doing a 1/4 slomo then exporting and reimporting and doing another 1/4 slomo still presents the same artefacts as doing a 1/16 slomo in the first place, AFAICS. So seems a waste of time.
– Strangely, the funnies that appear after 1/5th – 1/7th seem not to increase as the speed get slower: so 1/20th is no worse. More study needed.
– The “simple” interface, as with all “simple” interfaces, tends to hide stuff that you can control: I would need to re-explore how to set the fact that you can make the output match the input parameters etc .
-The inter….UI is totally different from those normal to windows and I hate that…it’s a bit anti if you write for Win.
Does 50 FPS help…does 50P vs 50 I help? the Shadow knows
Nick
Head: Hertz Music
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OK. I dld the trial and it seems to give a much better result than I remember. Not sure if that is because the app has improved, or that I chose the right video format and settings by chance.
It was a while ago, so sorry if I remembered it as a plugin. Some of their apps are plugins, but not this.
Thanks for all the input.
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Mea Culpa for the name. Vegas Movie Studio.
I DL’d the trial yesterday. I assume it’s the latest build but I can’t find that info in the UI.
I thought that Respeeder was a Vegas Plugin (????). I read John’s post about disabling resample and assumed that this was the problem if you use Respeeder as a plugin. I have to admit that using Respeedr stand alone does not have all the nasties. But I remember not having to render out and then having to render back in…a plugin…also a huge time saver
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OK, Thanks very much John. I had not thought of that. I usually do that, as I do not like the result even without slowing. I imagine I was focusing on trying out Respeedr.
Thanks again and I will 100% give that a go.
Nick
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Hmmm..as with the issue of volumes in tracks, I opened up this morning and editing is working again. Gremlins…..
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Thanks John. Yeah that was it. I guess drag and drop is the faster way to do this.
Nick
Head: Hertz Music