Vegas 8.0 Problem - Slowing Down & Speeding Up

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Vegas 8.0 Problem - Slowing Down & Speeding Up

Postby DaRealChrono » Tue May 06, 2008 9:48 pm

Ok so I'm working on my amv, and I intended to slow down a couple of clips and speed up some, which was no problem. I did it by holding CTRL (I believe) and dragging it to the left or right depending. Ok so...

When I go to render it, the clips show up black that I slowed down and sped up, but everything else is fine...What am I doing wrong here? My clips are encoded with Xvid, and I know it's not best to do that, but it isn't a problem unless I'm slowing or speeding up. The slowed/sped up clips preview fine, they just won't render right...

Can someone please help?
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Postby JaddziaDax » Tue May 06, 2008 10:28 pm

1 stop using xvid, and

2 find a different way to change clip speed? try the "envelope" band (right click on the clip choose envelope then velocity) or change the playback properties (right click go to properties and change the playback speed) if neither of those work, then find a different way to time the video.
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Postby DaRealChrono » Tue May 06, 2008 11:10 pm

It didn't have anything to do with Xvid...I found out how to fix it. All you have to do is disable the resampling by going to right-clicking, going to properties on the clip that was slowed/sped up.
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Postby Vivaldi » Tue May 06, 2008 11:15 pm

Xvid will cause you a world of problems regardless. If you need to save space, use the avs file, or better yet, just cut clips.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Wed May 07, 2008 1:40 am

xvid will still eventually give you a load of troubles... lossless files won't give you as many problems which is why it's recommended to use them in Vegas...

you can attempt to bait and switch avs files in vegas but its a load of work and can cause issues...

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Postby DaRealChrono » Wed May 07, 2008 4:45 am

Lol, think I'm already getting some...having a tough time getting this video exported in decent settings...only thing working is DV-AVI but then I can't compress back into DivX in VirtualDubMod...might just be me though...I'm n00bish to these codec things, considering I've been using WMM2 for like my whole AMV career, lol...

Is there a program other than AutoGK that can change DVD files into .avi under a different codec? AutoGK is the only thing I know of....sorry if it's been said before, but could you just point me in the direction?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Wed May 07, 2008 6:50 am

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Postby Dragon/Roy » Wed May 07, 2008 7:27 am

looseless is extremly big though........... and some ppl have no space for a whole series........ and alot of work doing clips
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Wed May 07, 2008 9:58 am

Oh no! work! anything but that! :roll:
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Postby DaRealChrono » Wed May 07, 2008 2:27 pm

There's no problem with cutting clips, I use AviChop to make the clips bearable to work with...

I could have a problem with space though...

There isn't just a program like AutoGK (which encodes .VOB files into .avi xvid/divx files at the size you want) that I can use to convert, say MPEG-2 for example? I don't mind going through all of the AviSynth/VDM stuff, but is there an easier way?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Wed May 07, 2008 3:28 pm

If you find one that works and doesn't reduce video quality at all or screw up your project files, let us know - it'll be the new recommended way to do things. :up:
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Postby JaddziaDax » Wed May 07, 2008 4:01 pm

virtualdub mod:

JaddziaDax wrote:open the video file in virtualdub mod go to video->compression->Huffyuv or Lagarith

then go to file->save

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Postby Kanti13 » Sat May 31, 2008 12:51 pm

DaRealChrono wrote:There isn't just a program like AutoGK (which encodes .VOB files into .avi xvid/divx files at the size you want) that I can use to convert, say MPEG-2 for example? I don't mind going through all of the AviSynth/VDM stuff, but is there an easier way?


I'm really not a computer wiz and I've never heard of AutoGK, so for me I use Axara video converter. It's extremely easy to use and it only costs $30. It can change vids to AVI, WMV, FLV, SWF, MPEG, MOV, RM, and SWF ( for outputting on "your own personal computer") It can also convert vids for things like ipod, DVD player, portable media player, ect.. And it tells you what kind of files you can use for specific devices (someone like me wouldn't just know otherwise).

You can also use it to make screen shots and to cut out parts of videos if you want to do something like make or convert just a part of a vid. I've only used it to convert to either AVI or WMV. When converting to AVI I haven't noticed any quality loss, but there is some when converting to WMV, so that may be a downside with some formats. But for a person like me who just doesn't know much about these things I find it extremely useful. Like I said, it's incredibly user friendly. All you have to do is drag and drop your video, pick the format, and press convert.

There are some things that look more complicated like aspect ratio and crop scale, but I've never used these so I'm not exactly sure what they're capable of doing, sorry. Hope this can help though :)

you can get it here if you want http://www.shareup.com/Axara_Video_Conv ... 49006.html
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