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I searched and found a ton the subject but if anyone has time to answer my direct questions please do so. Otherwise disregard. Thank you!

I know of two methods to slow a clip down. I can hover over the end of it and hold control, then drag it forward into the timeline "stretching it". Or I can Insert a "Velocity" video envelope wich gives me a green line across the clip much like a volume audio envelope that I can drag up or down selecting a percentage value at which the clip plays from it's original speed.
I am editing an interval recording I did the other day... so I dumped two clips into my timeline and not I am playing with them trying to get the most out of what I captured. I want to slow down the whole thing and make a few sections even slower, great, piece of cake. I used the velocity video envelope cause it was easier to slow down both clips to the same exact rate at wich the footage is most pleasing... fine, did that without a problem.

but...

I have a little problem when I cut these... I get a weird jump when I split a section of the clip to say slow it down further or simply delete it to skip boring parts... when I split a section within the clip everything before stays the same, but this new separate section now contains a different portion of the original clip's timeline. It jumps forward. Also, the following section (the rest of the clip) also jumps...

aparently the velocity envelope will speed up the display frame rate but it doesn't change the dedicated lengh of the clip in the timeline... but


What is the logic behind this? How can one work with this if you wanted to split a section and stretch it with the other method but you wanted the first frames of the newly split section and the following section to remain the same one.
 
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Let me rephrase my question since I don't know if I made myself clear...

is there an easy way to set the whole project at 50% or 40% speed or maybe at 66.66% (is that possible?) and then be able to split sections of said clip with normal ease?
 
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Good question. Here is what I found:

1. I put a clip on the timeline and stretched it out to twice it's length (ctrl, click, drag).
2. I split it in the middle.
3. When I play it the 2nd section picks up right where the 1st leaves off.

However, if I do the same as above except use velocity envelope the 2nd clip does NOT start where the 1st leaves off.

So, what can you do if you want to split a clip slowed with velocity clip?

1. You can shift the 2nd clip forward or backward within its event by alt clicking it and dragging so it starts at the desired place. This can be a bit tedious.

2. Haven't tried this but you might be able to put the clip in a nested video, set up your velocity envelope there, and then drop that veg in your master veg and do the splits in the master.

Jerry
 
A nested video is just using your Vegas VEG file as a video file.

just open another project or a new one, find your Vegas .VEG file on your drive and import it into your new project.

You can now treat this .VEG file just like a video clip and add efects to it and change velocity etc.

If you make changes to that .VEG file then the changes will be reflected in your new project.
 
The use a velocity envelope/split/events aren't contiguous problem was resolved in one of the Vegas 7 updates.
 
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