thanks for the comment and the add be well! i think I'll try different subject matter for my next t/l experiment

I look forward to it Steve :)

Hi Durban - thanks for the comment! Only Vegas is needed /used to speed up the video. The sr7 doesn't have that capability. For this video (and the other two t/l's I made). I use a combination of speeding up the clip in the timeline by grabbing the right edge of the clip while holding down CTRL. You'll see a squiggly line under the cursor, compress the clip and you can get a 400% increase in speed. Then I use the velocity envelope; right click on the clip, choose insert/remove envelope - velocity. Your clip will have a blue line through it and you can get another 300%. Note that it loops the clip so adjust accordingly. I then rendered that to a new track and repeated just the 400% increase on the new track before the final render.

I'm a hack by all means - most of what I learned I picked up through the Creative Cow and DMN Vegas forum.

Good luck - I look forward to seeing your results!

Unfortunatley I didn't keep this around - but it was likely in the 3-4GB range.

Nice work on the time lapse Durban!

You certainly can split and cut at the loop point, I usually just grab the end of the clip and trim it back to the snap point but make sure you do that before render. I found out the hard way and rendered the 3x clip before I realized it was looped. That is what I meant with "adjust accordingly".

I have not looked into how to stop it from looping altogether when using the velocity envelope.

I'll look forward to seeing more of your time lapse clips.