preview speed

bhds · Post by **bhds** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:53 am

I am trying out the 30 day trial. Currently use Pinnacle Studio 9.
In studio 9 when playing back your captured video in edit mode you can vary the speed by 2x-10x. Does VS have that capability? I know you can vary the playback speed for the final rendered video. I want to be able to preview the captured video faster than realtime.

Boff2004 · Post by **Boff2004** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:44 am

Yes, VS9 has this feature.

You can preview your captured video as fast as 1000% faster than the recorded speed. Just go to the Edit Tab, change the Playback Speed to a value higher than 100%, hit OK. From there, if you click on the "Play" button under the preview screen, your video will be previewed at the selected speed. Note that your computer needs to be fast enough to render it properly. As an example, mine is a P4 2.4Ghz, 768 MB RAM and it can handle without problems.

bhds · Post by **bhds** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:40 pm

Boff2004 wrote:Yes, VS9 has this feature.

You can preview your captured video as fast as 1000% faster than the recorded speed. Just go to the Edit Tab, change the Playback Speed to a value higher than 100%, hit OK. From there, if you click on the "Play" button under the preview screen, your video will be previewed at the selected speed. Note that your computer needs to be fast enough to render it properly. As an example, mine is a P4 2.4Ghz, 768 MB RAM and it can handle without problems.

As far as I can tell changing the playback speed is carried into your final rendered video unless you change it back to normal before rendering. I would hate to spend hours rendering and then find that I forgot to change the speed back to normal on one of the clips. Very clunky.

Was looking for something like a fast forward/rewind button. Push the > arrow and the playback speeds up. Push it again and it speeds up more. Get to a part you need to trim, push stop, do your trimming and then continue on.

Boff2004 · Post by **Boff2004** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:17 am

In that case, what you'll probably want to use is the "multi-trim" feature. It's not exactly what you described, but you can do just about the same by using the "multi-trim" feature.

There are a couple of ways to use the multi-trim feature once you've opened a clip in it:

1) The first one is by using either the "search forward" or "search backward" button. You can decide the time interval each click represents when using these buttons.
2) The second one is by using the "jog wheel" under the preview screen to manually move the video to the right spot.
3) And finally, there's also a slider under the preview screen that can increase the speed of the preview up to 32x. My guess is that this last one might be the one you're looking for.

Note that there are more ways (entering a specific timecode, moving the arrow just under the preview screen (job slider), going to the next/previous frame) but I don't think they are the ones you're looking for...

Hope this helps.

bhds · Post by **bhds** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:43 am

I reinstalled and tried the multi-trim tool but it still isnt very efficient for scanning through an hour long video

I do appreciate your help though boff2004

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:38 pm

Hi
Go to the timeline view.
To the left of the ‘time rule’ is a slider this expands and contracts the frames you see in the timeline.
Click the ‘time rule’ and the project position curser should appear.
You can drag this curser along the timeline to review the video frames.
It is a quick manual way to scan through, but you don’t get audio.