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Dale Guthormsen · May 22nd, 2009, 08:26 AM

Good Morning,

I would like to take 1bout 15 minutes of video and super accellerate it so it takes 15 to 20 seconds.

the keystone cops effect.

When I use velocity envelopes or play rate it really isn't fast enough.

any nsuggestions???

thank you.

Edward Troxel · May 22nd, 2009, 08:32 AM

Velocity Envelope will give you 300%. The Playback Rate (either in Properties or by holding down CTRL and resizing it smaller) will give you up to 400%. Combined, you can get up to 1200% (or 12x).

If you need faster than that, render it out, put that on the timeline, and apply the Playback Rate and Velocity Envelope again. Go up to 12x again and you will now have a clip at 144x.

Matthew Chaboud · May 22nd, 2009, 08:59 AM

You could put it in a nested project and speed that up.

Edward Troxel · May 22nd, 2009, 09:04 AM

Agreed - a nested project would eliminate the need for the intermediate render. Either way, to get above 12x you either need to render, nest, or actually chop out frames.

Mike Kujbida · May 22nd, 2009, 09:04 AM

There's also Time Bandit which is a part of Veggie Toolkit.
It's $80 U.S. but the folks I know that have it LOVE it for all it's different tools.

Edward Troxel · May 22nd, 2009, 09:35 AM

I just sped up a clip about 90x using Excalibur as well. I took a clip that was 38 minutes and 23 seconds long and run the "Strobe" tool. I told it to keep 1 frame, delete 3 seconds. I then ran the gap/overlap tool to remove the 3 second gaps. Ending timeline was 25 seconds 10 frames. So... many ways to accomplish really fast speeds.

Dale Guthormsen · May 22nd, 2009, 09:39 AM

Thank you Gentlemen!!!

The nested idea and the rerender work great. play rate worked best.

I ended up speeding up 144 times

Ian Stark · May 23rd, 2009, 01:46 PM

And here is an example of a sequence sped up almost 700 times!

To be honest, I had a head start in that I shot the footage using the interval timer on my XL2, so it's maybe not completely fair for me to try and compete with the other time-compression feats achieved here!

This is footage shot over 11 hours compressed into 1 minute using the standard Vegas 4 x 300%. It shows the very first theatre production 'get-in' at the brand new Live Room at Twickenham Stadium. (Annoyingly I didn't get the aspect ratio right for uploading to YouTube.) The corrected version is to be shown on the Rugby Football Union website and I'll change the link (if I remember!).

YouTube - TOpS Get-In for Godspell

May 22nd, 2009, 08:26 AM	#1
Dale Guthormsen Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 3,048	super excellerating video Good Morning, I would like to take 1bout 15 minutes of video and super accellerate it so it takes 15 to 20 seconds. the keystone cops effect. When I use velocity envelopes or play rate it really isn't fast enough. any nsuggestions??? thank you. __________________ DATS ALL FOLKS Dale W. Guthormsen

May 22nd, 2009, 08:32 AM	#2
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Velocity Envelope will give you 300%. The Playback Rate (either in Properties or by holding down CTRL and resizing it smaller) will give you up to 400%. Combined, you can get up to 1200% (or 12x). If you need faster than that, render it out, put that on the timeline, and apply the Playback Rate and Velocity Envelope again. Go up to 12x again and you will now have a clip at 144x. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

May 22nd, 2009, 09:04 AM	#4
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Agreed - a nested project would eliminate the need for the intermediate render. Either way, to get above 12x you either need to render, nest, or actually chop out frames. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

May 22nd, 2009, 09:35 AM	#6
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	I just sped up a clip about 90x using Excalibur as well. I took a clip that was 38 minutes and 23 seconds long and run the "Strobe" tool. I told it to keep 1 frame, delete 3 seconds. I then ran the gap/overlap tool to remove the 3 second gaps. Ending timeline was 25 seconds 10 frames. So... many ways to accomplish really fast speeds. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

May 22nd, 2009, 09:39 AM	#7
Dale Guthormsen Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 3,048	Thank you Gentlemen!!! The nested idea and the rerender work great. play rate worked best. I ended up speeding up 144 times __________________ DATS ALL FOLKS Dale W. Guthormsen

May 22nd, 2009, 08:59 AM	#3
Matthew Chaboud Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chicago, IL, USA Posts: 93	You could put it in a nested project and speed that up.

May 22nd, 2009, 09:04 AM	#5
Mike Kujbida Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Windsor, ON Canada Posts: 2,770	There's also Time Bandit which is a part of Veggie Toolkit. It's $80 U.S. but the folks I know that have it LOVE it for all it's different tools.

May 23rd, 2009, 01:46 PM	#8
Ian Stark Inner Circle Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Hampshire, UK Posts: 2,237	And here is an example of a sequence sped up almost 700 times! To be honest, I had a head start in that I shot the footage using the interval timer on my XL2, so it's maybe not completely fair for me to try and compete with the other time-compression feats achieved here! This is footage shot over 11 hours compressed into 1 minute using the standard Vegas 4 x 300%. It shows the very first theatre production 'get-in' at the brand new Live Room at Twickenham Stadium. (Annoyingly I didn't get the aspect ratio right for uploading to YouTube.) The corrected version is to be shown on the Rugby Football Union website and I'll change the link (if I remember!). YouTube - TOpS Get-In for Godspell __________________ www.vit-media.com www.classicmachinefilms.co.uk