[Steve Bertone]

Thanks Steve+John. My terminology on this stuff is not always good. Can you nest by highlighting events within a projects selecting something that brings them together as would nesting a veg file?

Here is a little more detail into what im trying to accomplish:

I recorded 2 hrs of material where the camera looked a door. This was a for a 60th bday party. I had it run to film everyone arriving, moving about, and then obviously the surprise. With that material there is a lot of gaps of nothing. I imported the event, stripped out the nothing by splitting and removing. When first guest arrives, I want it to play at normal speed. Once they get greeted I want it to play at 8 times the speed till the next person gets greeted/comes through the door. Then go back to 8 times and continue this till the surprise part. The sped up parts have fast circus type of music playing while the normal parts show the real audio.

So lots of split where maybe its 3 to 4 events/clips of high speed, and then 1-2 clips of normal speed in between. To apply the high speed I am control and dragging to compress fully at 4 times, and then adding velocity at 200%. To bring each event back to the original point in time of where I split it, I need to make each one of these high speed splits its own subclip so I know where to drag the clip to to meet that point.

Nesting as you guys described would not be feasible in the specific case above. If I made all of those edits and then nested, then all my events I wanted at high speed would be mixed with my events I anted at normal speed.

Would moving the normal speed events to another track fix that?

And on another note, I had veg that when I split, all the events became their own subclip so I could add velocity and trim to the loop marker. I never hit create subclip. Now I tried it importing the event in a new veg and each split just acts as the original 2 hr clip where it wont loop until I drag it to the exact end of the original event. Might I have hit something by mistake that made them subclips automatically? That would be ideal in my case. When wouldn’t you want your split clip to be their own sublcips? Sorry a lot of newbie q’s im sure but im getting better…thx

[Steve Bertone]

Thx Guys. Don’t think adding a velocity envelope to the entire 2 hrs solves my problem. My reason for splitting was to delete huge caps of no people moving through the event. So I remove that material and end up with a bunch of clips. I also want/need to speed up portionos the event 8 times which means I need to compress fully which is 4 times playrate and then add velocity at 200%. Other potions are not compressed at all and play at normal speed.

So the split clips will have to be there, and after I add velocity I will need to shrink the end of the clip to have it end at the same point in time of where I split it originally.

I guess I could add velocity to entire 2 hours without adjusting it. Split and remove areas where needs. Highlight entire work and select create subclip, remove velocity from clips I don’t want sped up, compress where desired, and then adjust velocity individually. Seems like a lot of work….Would love to make my splits. join the subclips I want joined so it is one continuous clip, not group, make it a subclip, and apply the compress and velocity.

To my original post though, any reason why sony made my split clips into subclips without me slecting “create subclips?” thx

[Steve Bertone]

Thanks John. Appreciate the help. I’ll put these tips to good use.

[Steve Bertone]

Hahaha! : ) Let me rephrase. Remember I’m a newbie. I have seen some pretty darn clear 720p video. I would think that my photo wouldn’t go from looking like a clear crisp tree to fuzzy tree by resizing to 1280×720. But maybe I’m way off base.

Thanks everyone for sharing all of your resizing suggestions

[Steve Bertone]

Thank you! That all makes sense and I put it to good use and it all came out great. I tried a separate project where I was creating a time lapse of a storm to clear sky. Took a 7MP picture every 2 secs for about 2 hours. Played each one back at .02 secs so I could render correctly and play back at 30 fps. I rendered in Sony avc, 1280x 720p 30 fps mp4 and it just doesn’t look as crisp as the pictures themselves. It is like is lost detail. I set the bit rate to 10mbps but that didn’t seem to make a difference. Any tip on how to preserve the quality of the photo in the time lapse? Do I need to raise the bit rate even more? Thanks again for the good answers

[Steve Bertone]

Please clarify if you can. If I disable resampling, and I render in 24 fps it will only play every 10th frame, but it wont play it in slow-motion. It will only play in slow motion if I adjust playback rate in properties or use velocity. My goal is to have it play every one of the total frames from the 240 fps 1 minute clip/event but just play them at a speed of 24 fps and have it be as sooth as possible.

Do you know the reason why we can set the velocity speed maually with no restrictions but we cant do the same in playback rate in properties?

Thats a good question on the 848x480p…that is what the gopro records 480p at and I didnt do the math and just wanted to keep it in its native size. Does rendering to 1920 by 1080 affect the quality of the video if it was recorded at 848x480p or any other lower resoliution? Thanks again for the answers

[Steve Bertone]

Thanks. So that being said, I like to shoot a lot of video with gopro cam at 848x480p 240 fps. To play this accurately at 24 fps(without vegas doing much work filling in frames etc, would it be best to set a straight velocity at 10% (.1*240 = 24)? Can’t figure out either how to render in 848×484 in vegas 12, or is it best just to render that clip in 1080p at 24 fps? Thanks for the help. Ive been trying to learn a lot in a short period. Watched a lot of youtube vids and reading, playing with vegas to get where I am, but cant find the answers to these Q’s anywhere. Thx!

[Steve Bertone]

Hi John . As a newbie to video editing and to playing with vegas 12, i have learned a bunch from reading this thread as it had all the questions I was asking myself, answered. Bless google. In any case, I had another question that relates. Other than being able to set points and create curves with a velocity envelope, is there any different between say playing a clip at a straight 25% speed with velocity and just adjusting the playback rate in properties to .25? Thanks!