Time-Lapse Video in Sony Vegas - Tutorial

[DarthChronikus]

ok tut but you should talk more about rendering it for hd widescreen or whatev... thanks

[snowdarth]

Dude! thanks for this tutorial! I made it!

[wimperke]

thank you SO much

i was looking for this for ages!

[squidskunk]

Ethan...can you put up a tutorial on how you did this...its VERY COOL..!

[EthanWiner]

@squidskunk The text above explain how I did this.

[JohnLRice]

Cool, I didn't know you could do it that way.

But doesn't it give you the same effect as just stretching/compressing a video clip by holding down the Ctrl key and dragging the left or right edge? ;-)

[EthanWiner]

@JohnLRice Ctrl-drag in Vegas works well, but it can't speed up more than 4 times faster. The clip in this example is 60 times faster.

[JohnLRice]

@EthanWiner Ahhh! Thanks Eathan, I get it now! ;-)

[EthanWiner]

@JohnLRice I could have mentioned that you can get up to 12x speedup using Ctrl-drag (4x) plus another 3x by adding a Velocity envelope. But the method described here has no limit. Better, once you have the clip sped up as desired, you can delete the original huge file it came from to save disk space.

[mikecupcake]

@EthanWiner I've been shooting timelapse video at 1fps and then using Virtualdub (free program) to change to my desired framerate - you have to resave the AVI but it doesn't do any recompression. Haven't tried dropping a 500+ fps file into Vegas but it might be worth a try!

[EthanWiner]

@mikecupcake Cool, thanks Mike.

[DaveKingMusic]

Very cool. I wonder if this will work with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum.