Viewing individual frames on the Video Track at DVinfo.net

Glenn Gipson · May 30th, 2005, 08:30 AM

How do I have my video track setup so that I can see each individual frame from my video on it? Thanks.

Steve Roffler · May 30th, 2005, 09:32 AM

You can keep hitting the little "plus" sign at the bottom right of the video window until you reach individual frames. I usually just keep hitting the "up" arrow key. It does the same thing.

Probably also a shortcut but I will have to defer to the Vegas experts out there.

Glenn Gipson · May 30th, 2005, 09:35 AM

Well, what I am asking is how do you VIEW individual frames up on the ACTUAL time line itself, instead of frames that are simply spaced out on the time line.

Charlie Wilkinson · May 30th, 2005, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glenn Gipson

Well, what I am asking is how do you VIEW individual frames up on the ACTUAL time line itself, instead of frames that are simply spaced out on the time line.

Hi Glenn,
Based on what you originally asked, I would've assumed Steve answered your question, but apparently not. I've tried over and over to parse your "clarification", but it's just not making sense to me. Wanna take another shot at it?

-cw-

Patrick King · May 30th, 2005, 02:25 PM

Glenn,
I'll take a stab at it. Right-click the timeline and select a rate in SMPTE frames to match your video (drop, non-drop, 24p, whatever it is). The timeline numbers are now in hours:minutes:seconds:frames.

Select a point in the video event on the timeline and roll the wheel on your mouse forward (or press the up-arrow key) until the last digit above each frame is successive (xx:xx:xx:14, xx:xx:xx:15, xx:xx:xx:16). You are now looking at individual frames and each press of the left-arrow or right-arrow key will move one frame in the corresponding direction.

This would probably be a good thing for someone to write a script to speed the selection of this view.

Glenn Gipson · May 30th, 2005, 05:18 PM

>>Wanna take another shot at it?<<

Hmmm. Ok, let me explain it like this. There is an option to NOT have Vegas show each individual frame on the actual TIME LINE. When I first got Vegas, I turned this off. This allows for the program to quickly render out the video time line, therefore speeding things up. My video time line looks something like this:

[frame]---white spacing---[frame]---white spacing---[frame]

What I want to do is have my video time line look like this:

[frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame]

No matter how close I zoom in, the white spacing between frames ALWAYS shows up on the video time line. This is the best way I can explain it.

Glenn Gipson · May 30th, 2005, 05:20 PM

Patrick, I'll take a stab at your directions after my Vegas computer is done rendering. Thanks.

Patrick King · May 30th, 2005, 07:25 PM

Glenn,

If you see this...

[frame]---white spacing---[frame]---white spacing---[frame]

...you are zoomed in too close, zoom out using the technique I described. Zoom out one mouse wheel click at a time until you see...

[frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame]

..with a unique timecode above each frame (e.g. xx:xx:xx:14, xx:xx:xx:15, xx:xx:xx:16).

Edward Troxel · May 30th, 2005, 08:08 PM

You might try changing the HEIGHT of your video track. Or you can totally turn off the thumbnails in preferences (of course you turn off the wave-forms too).

Patrick King · May 30th, 2005, 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Edward Troxel

You might try changing the HEIGHT of your video track. Or you can totally turn off the thumbnails in preferences (of course you turn off the wave-forms too).

And thats really something I thought would change with V6. How long will Sony continue to take a beating over this issue.

May 30th, 2005, 08:30 AM	#1
Glenn Gipson Major Player Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Plainfield, New Jersey Posts: 927	Viewing individual frames on the Video Track How do I have my video track setup so that I can see each individual frame from my video on it? Thanks.

May 30th, 2005, 09:32 AM	#2
Steve Roffler Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Taipei, Taiwan Posts: 100	You can keep hitting the little "plus" sign at the bottom right of the video window until you reach individual frames. I usually just keep hitting the "up" arrow key. It does the same thing. Probably also a shortcut but I will have to defer to the Vegas experts out there. __________________ Steve pdx10, EOS10D

May 30th, 2005, 02:25 PM	#5
Patrick King Major Player Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Enterprise, AL Posts: 857	Glenn, I'll take a stab at it. Right-click the timeline and select a rate in SMPTE frames to match your video (drop, non-drop, 24p, whatever it is). The timeline numbers are now in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. Select a point in the video event on the timeline and roll the wheel on your mouse forward (or press the up-arrow key) until the last digit above each frame is successive (xx:xx:xx:14, xx:xx:xx:15, xx:xx:xx:16). You are now looking at individual frames and each press of the left-arrow or right-arrow key will move one frame in the corresponding direction. This would probably be a good thing for someone to write a script to speed the selection of this view. __________________ Fear No Weevil!

May 30th, 2005, 07:25 PM	#8
Patrick King Major Player Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Enterprise, AL Posts: 857	Glenn, If you see this... [frame]---white spacing---[frame]---white spacing---[frame] ...you are zoomed in too close, zoom out using the technique I described. Zoom out one mouse wheel click at a time until you see... [frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame] ..with a unique timecode above each frame (e.g. xx:xx:xx:14, xx:xx:xx:15, xx:xx:xx:16). __________________ Fear No Weevil!

May 30th, 2005, 08:08 PM	#9
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	You might try changing the HEIGHT of your video track. Or you can totally turn off the thumbnails in preferences (of course you turn off the wave-forms too). __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

May 30th, 2005, 09:35 AM	#3
Glenn Gipson Major Player Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Plainfield, New Jersey Posts: 927	Well, what I am asking is how do you VIEW individual frames up on the ACTUAL time line itself, instead of frames that are simply spaced out on the time line.

May 30th, 2005, 05:18 PM	#6
Glenn Gipson Major Player Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Plainfield, New Jersey Posts: 927	>>Wanna take another shot at it?<< Hmmm. Ok, let me explain it like this. There is an option to NOT have Vegas show each individual frame on the actual TIME LINE. When I first got Vegas, I turned this off. This allows for the program to quickly render out the video time line, therefore speeding things up. My video time line looks something like this: [frame]---white spacing---[frame]---white spacing---[frame] What I want to do is have my video time line look like this: [frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame][frame] No matter how close I zoom in, the white spacing between frames ALWAYS shows up on the video time line. This is the best way I can explain it.

May 30th, 2005, 05:20 PM	#7
Glenn Gipson Major Player Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Plainfield, New Jersey Posts: 927	Patrick, I'll take a stab at your directions after my Vegas computer is done rendering. Thanks.