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Solved Speed up 4k footage to make timelapse

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Posted 13 May 2018 19:55 #1
Hey,
I've made 1h footage of sunset and need to speed it up x100 times but time stretch in MS allows only 4x times compression(. What to do?
Is there any way to make this in MS without numerous rendering?
Last Edit:17 Jun 2018 11:40 by Dima

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Replied by ericlnz on topic Speed up 4k footage to make timelapse

Posted 13 May 2018 21:42 #2
One way, which might give a better result than rerendering although probably slower, would be to take an image of every 1/100th frame and use these on your timeline. Or export as Image Sequence and then after putting on the timeline chuck out 99 out of 100 images. A quick calculation indicates your 1 hour speeded up 100 times will have 900 frames or images at 25 fps.
Edit: Further thought - after exporting as Image Sequence you could delete the unwanted 99% of frames in Windows Explorer before dragging them into your project.
Last Edit:13 May 2018 21:56 by ericlnz
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Replied by DoctorZen on topic Speed up 4k footage to make timelapse

Posted 14 May 2018 09:07 #3
The best way to create a timelapse is take a series of still image shots at set intervals.
That is the way all professional film makers would do something like this.
Trying to speed up video x100 times is going way past the normal limits.
As Eric has pointed out, speeding up x100 times means that 99 out of every 100 video frames are being thrown away.

Using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, you can only speed up 400% (x4) without re-rendering.
Vegas Pro does allow up to x40 speed, if you do a combination of playback speed (x4) and Velocity Envelope set to 1000%.

I did make a tutorial about this here:
www.moviestudiozen.com/free-tutorials/sony-movie-studio-platinum/488-creating-a-timelapse-with-movie-studio-platinum-12
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