Speed

derek-brown wrote on 1/5/2018, 8:49 AM

As you can guess relatively new to magix software. I am trying to understand the speed settings. When importing and highlighting a video the speed always seem to register as one , regardless of the pace of the walk while using a Gimbal. It would be useful when editing to know the speeds you used to aid in further videos. I am aware the speed can be seen when using Keyframes and inserting speed ramps. Is it not possible to see the different speed decreases/increases prior to edit?

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terrypin wrote on 1/5/2018, 11:43 AM

Leaving aside the absence of any information about what version of Movie Edit Pro you're using (or other basic information requested in the message at the top of the page) I'm unclear what 'speed' you're referring to?

This sets the speed at which a video on the timeline plays. The default is obviously 1. A setting of 2 will double the speed (by halving the duration).
It has no connection with the speed at which you were moving, if that's what you mean!

EDIT: Sorry, I should have checked your sig, where I now see you gave details of your PC and version.

 

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RogerGunkel wrote on 1/5/2018, 1:19 PM

Just to add a bit more to what Terry has already put, if you are trying to work out what filming speeds you should use, the faster the action the more frames per second (FPS) you will need to reduce blurring. For typical everyday family filming in the UK, you would probably use 25fps (30 in the US) although using 50fps (60) is also common for smoother movement. For movement that is quite fast that you might want to slow down to view, 100-200fps would enable you to slow the footage right down for slow motion detail, using the speed scale in the editor that Terry showed. So 100fps slowed down to 25% would play at quarter speed but still be smooth, whereas if it was filmed at 25fps and slowed down to 25%, it would be 6.25fps which would be very jerky.

Hope that helps,

Roger

yvon-robert wrote on 1/6/2018, 4:39 PM

Hi,

number of frames per second or pictures per second to catch a video is 30 or 60 fps the 30 is standard for most work but motion can be catch to avoid blur image at 60 fps. New camera for sport or tracking motion canbe setup up to 240 fps and more. The function in software can be use to slow or speed à clip naturally a factor of 2 can be interpreted double speed that means 1 second play 60 frames and a factor of 0.5 can be that 1 second play 15 frames. Regards,

YR