User Guide

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WORKING WITH EVENTS CHP. 6

Double-click the envelope where you want to add a

point.

Drag the point to adjust it. Vegas displays the time and

velocity level of the point as you drag.

Right-click the envelope between two points to choose

a fade type (linear, fast, slow, smooth, or sharp) to set

the shape of the curve.

Tip:

To delete a point, right-click the point and choose

Delete.

Making a video play at twice its normal speed makes the duration of the video half as long. Likewise, slowing

a video down makes it longer (with 0% being an infinite freeze frame). For example, if you decrease the

speed of a ten-second video event by 50%, only five seconds of video play (played over the course of the ten-

second event), meaning that only half as much actual footage from the original event plays. On the other

hand, if the speed is increased 200%, the ten seconds of content play in only five seconds. The remaining

five seconds of the event are filled either with a freeze of the last frame or with ten additional seconds of

video content from the longer file.

You may want to resample the frame rate of an event that has been significantly slowed. To resample an

event, right-click the event and choose

Properties. Then, on the Video Event tab, select the Resample check

box. For more information, see Resampling video on page 175.

Using the Envelope Edit Tool

While you can edit envelopes using the Normal Edit tool ( ), you can limit your editing to envelopes only

by clicking the

Envelope Edit Tool button ( ). You cannot move, trim, or otherwise modify events with this

tool, which allows you to edit envelope points without making any other unwanted changes. For more

information, see Using the Envelope Edit tool on page 110.

Reversing a video event

Setting the velocity to a negative value reverses the video, working backwards from the point where the

negative value occurs. An event that has been reversed plays backwards until it gets to the first frame and

then holds that frame for the duration of the event.

Right-click an event and choose Insert/Remove Velocity Envelope.

Trim the beginning of the video event to the place where you want the reversal to begin (e.g., the last

frame in the media file that you want to play if it were playing forward).

Envelope points