How to Speed up Video in Vegas

[wingspar]

I have part of a video I want to speed the action up. How do I accomplish that? The Vegas help is no help at all.

[wrathofbod]

move mouse over the right edge of the video clip, hold down Ctrl & left mouse button then drag left to speed up & right to slow down.

[wingspar]

Thanks. That seems to work, but I can’t really see that the video is sped up. Will that become more apparent when I render the video?

[wingspar]

One more question. Does one have to do the speeding up or slowing down between splits, or are splits not the correct way to do it?

[TreeTops]

You should see the results of your increased speed in the preview window. At least it does in Vegas Movie Studio, which is similar to Vegas Pro. Between splits is nothing unless you put a transition there. So put your mouse curser on end of a clip and do what 'wrathofbod' said to do. Let us know if that works. Try on small portion of clip by trimming first. Do it on the trimmed part only to see if it works.

[wrathofbod]

it only speeds up by about a third, so you may need to do one clip then render it, then put it back into sony & repeat to get the right speed. i had to do it 3 times with the last clip i played with.

[budwzr]

Another way is to use a "Velocity" envelope on the event.

[wingspar]

I’m using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9. Not sure what version it’s up to now, but until I buy a new cam, I see no need to upgrade. I’ve never seen Vegas as very user friendly.

The only way I can make it work is by doing what wrathofbod said to do and only between splits. Maybe it’s too short to really see it in the preview window. Would that make sense?

I can’t find anything about a “"Velocity" envelope” in the Vegas help. Actually, I have no clue as to what an envelope is. My video editing skills and understanding of terms in Vegas are very limited. I’m working in the blind most of the time. I don’t do a lot of video editing. Give me a still camera and Photoshop, and I’m at home. Video. I feel lost most of the time.

[TreeTops]

In your first post you used the term VEGAS so we thought you were using Vegas Pro. I believe the velocity envelope is only in that version. Maybe it would be easier for you to watch a video on how to speed up a video in Vegas Movie Studio. Here one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZTVam3JU24

[_Al_]

Platinum supposedly has no velocity in the menu.

Can Platinum version nest projects? Create project just with your clip, speed it up 4x, (ctrl+drag) then import that project into original project and speed it up again.

This might not be enough, for sunrise type of footage, clouds speed up and similar ,personally I'd try to do it with VirtualDub, speed it up, export uncompressed, and load it into Vegas Platinum but you'd need some Avisynth knowledge and ffmegsource plugin to load your clip into Avisynth, so it is not straight forward, quite difficult to do it first time. Probably to render your clip to uncompressed video couple of times will be easier for you.

[wingspar]

In your first post you used the term VEGAS so we thought you were using Vegas Pro. I believe the velocity envelope is only in that version. Maybe it would be easier for you to watch a video on how to speed up a video in Vegas Movie Studio. Here one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZTVam3JU24

Well, I guess I just assumed people would figure I was using Studio, and not Pro. I struggle with studio, and my lack of understanding simple uses and lack of real knowledge of video editing, Pro would probably send me to the funny house, but then again, maybe it would be easier to understand. For example, point and shoot cameras drive me nuts with having to scroll thru menus to accomplish stuff, but hand me a $4k pro body, and I’m at home right away. Much easier to use, as long as you understand the basics of photography.

Thanks for the video link. It shows exactly what I am doing, so I’m figuring the part I sped up is just too short to see in the preview window, so I took a short video I did the other day, and sped it up. Sure was jerky and seemed to skip frames in the preview window, but after rendering, it was fine, so I’m hoping the short part I sped up that caused me to start this thread will come out fine after rendering.

I don’t know why I never thought of searching YouTube for help with Vegas Studio. I bookmarked that guys site and have already watched several of his videos on Vegas Studio. I’ve learned a lot that made no sense before just in a few short minutes this morning.