Calling all fellow nerds.

Len Kaufman wrote on 11/27/2015, 9:29 PM
Hi All,
The Big Bang Theory is one of my favorite programs. I'm sure there are a number of us, here on this site, that watch the program. How do I know? Because nerds attract nerds. LOL

I would like to do a sequence in one of my videos, that is similar to the intro on The Big Bang Theory. You know...the one that shows the Giza Pyramids, Stonehenge, Easter Island, and a bunch of other geographical sites in a super fast zoom-in series.

The only way I can think of doing this is zooming in, individually, on a bunch of clips, putting them in the sequence, and speeding up the entire sequence, using Vegasaur. Sounds rather tedious. Can anyone suggest a faster, more efficient, way of doing this? A script? Other?

Here is the sequence, very much slowed down: I would like to do this in SVP, perhaps taking stills from the video clips that will be in the video I am doing.

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john_dennis wrote on 11/27/2015, 10:08 PM
"Sounds rather tedious."

I don't think it should take more than a minute or two.

You can set the amount of time an individual picture is displayed by setting New Still Image Length on Options / Preferences / Editing.

Drop all the images on the timeline.

Set Pan / Crop for the first image to zoom in from the first frame to the last frame.

Select the first image and Right-Click and Copy.

Select all the rest of the images and Right - Click and Paste Event Attributes.

Each image will zoom in just the same.

Grazie wrote on 11/28/2015, 3:20 AM
I just did this for testing an effect for a project. However . . . I use the SOURCE - all the stills - Project as a Nested Veg within a separate SPEEDIED-UP veg. Here I could add Velo-Envels and squishing the Veg. This gives me a lot of control.

The longest part was making a selection of the stills!

G

NB: "Squishing the veg" not only an NLE term, but one that can safely be used in the kitchen too.

Len Kaufman wrote on 11/28/2015, 7:08 AM
This may do it for me, John Dennis. Thank you. I didn't think of the "copy and paste attributes" idea. I'll have to try that.

I also have to agree with Grazie. Selecting the stills will be a time eater.

And I use the "blender plug-in" in the kitchen for the veg squish.
Grazie wrote on 11/28/2015, 8:41 AM
Quick n Dirty of a minuscule selection from this November trip to Namibia . . oh yes . . .

Motion Blur


No Motion Blur


And the real point I'm making is that using a VeloEnvel to a NESTED veg I could then RAMP up the speed - and have that Big Bang acceleration.

G



wwaag wrote on 11/28/2015, 10:46 AM
@grazie

Your YT videos are listed "private".

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Grazie wrote on 11/28/2015, 11:07 AM
Oops!

I'll get it sorted. Thanks Waggie.

G
Grazie wrote on 11/28/2015, 11:11 AM
Is that working now?

G

Tom Pauncz wrote on 11/28/2015, 11:35 AM
Working here.. :-)
Grazie wrote on 11/28/2015, 11:36 AM
Thanks Tomo.

G