Timelapse possible in Vegas 7?

[bansheeproductions]

I have tried the velocity envelope and holding CTRL and dragging but it never makes a timelapse fast enough.

Is there a way?

 

[Barry_S]

In a recent hunt for a Vegas script, I saw a timelapse script that snagged only first frame from the timed bursts of frames that the DVX100 can shoot in timelapse mode. So if you have a DVX100 or other camera that can shoot in a timed burst mode you could use the script.

 

[bansheeproductions]

No im shooting with an FX1...wow thats really dissapointing

 

[Mark Seibert]

I did a little timelapse thing a few months ago. I used the "Render Image Sequence" under scripting. I set it to export every 30th frame. Then I reimported the sequence. Worked great!

 

[Norm Sanders]

Here's what I do, when I want a really REALLY fast speed/timelapse. Right click on the video clip & select properties. Then change the play rate (on the first tab) from 1.0 to 4.0. You've now sped your clip up by 400%. Then add your velocity envelope and crank that to 300%. You've now just sped that baby up to 12x it's normal speed! Not fast enough? Render that out to an uncompressed AVI, import that AVI back in, and repeat the process to taste.

In fact, rendering out the AVI, then importing back in, match cutting it to another clip, is how I got this effect: http://www.eefilm.com/silence/clips/silence-slomo.wmv

We had to VERY slowly steadicam in towards Rebecca, which I then had to crank way up in post. Because it was steadicam vs. dolly/cart, you can see some shake, but it still worked out pretty well.

Hope that helps!

 

[David Jimerson]

You can also use the Render Image Sequence script to extract single frames at regular intervals, which is what a time lapse would be.

 

[Norm Sanders]

I'll have to try it sometime. Since I probably still only know about 10-25% of Vegas' capabilities, I'm probably using the long approach.

I'm sure the look would be different as well ... or in the case of time lapse, the script would probably emulate more of the actual/correct look.

For the example I showed, speeding the footage up is probably still the better or more fluid approach ... I'm thinking.

 

[Mark Seibert]

For the example I showed, speeding the footage up is probably still the better or more fluid approach ... I'm thinking.

Actually, it is somewhat different. I've tried both. If done as you suggest and "Smart Resample" is on, there is an interesting motion-blurring introduced to the image. If you do it by exporting the individual frames with "Smart Resample" off, then you get very crisp images with no blurring. By exporting frames, you can speed up to any rate you want - export every 500th frame, etc... Depends on what you what...