freeze video, then resume?

[sornord]

I just received EMC9 and am assembling my first video "production." I have a video clip of a traffic scene that I want to annotate for the viewer. Specifically, I want to automatically freeze the video playback for, say, 10 seconds, while a text insert points to a vehicle in traffic and prompts the viewer to keep watching that vehicle. After the 10 seconds pass while the viewer reads the text, I'd like the playback to resume automatically so the viewer can follow that flagged vehicle as it proceeds through the clip.

 

I can't find any mention of a means to do this in the help or in the forum.

 

Is this effect possible in EMC9?

 

Ideally I'd like to have a moving color highlight over the vehicle in real time playback...but one step at a time while I learn to use this software!

 

thanks in advance for any help...

 

Steve Wilson

Ocala, Florida

[grandpabruce]

I just received EMC9 and am assembling my first video "production." I have a video clip of a traffic scene that I want to annotate for the viewer. Specifically, I want to automatically freeze the video playback for, say, 10 seconds, while a text insert points to a vehicle in traffic and prompts the viewer to keep watching that vehicle. After the 10 seconds pass while the viewer reads the text, I'd like the playback to resume automatically so the viewer can follow that flagged vehicle as it proceeds through the clip.

 

I can't find any mention of a means to do this in the help or in the forum.

 

Is this effect possible in EMC9?

 

Ideally I'd like to have a moving color highlight over the vehicle in real time playback...but one step at a time while I learn to use this software!

 

thanks in advance for any help...

 

Steve Wilson

Ocala, Florida

 

Sort of. Put the video on Timeline, in VideoWave. Put a split at the beginning and end of the part that you want to stop. Then, double click on the portion that you want to slow down, or be still. In the screen that comes up, you will see the Speed adjustment in the lower left hand portion of the screen. Adjust that to - whatever, then click OK.

 

You will have to play around with it until you get the desired effect. You can then insert text into that portion of the video by clicking on the A+ icon at the top of the preview screen.

 

Once that portion of the video plays in slow motion, so to speak, until it reaches the second place you did the split. The rest will then play at the regular speed.

 

Edit: Too tired to try to guess how to add the color highlight.

[ggrussell]

I would just do a 'extract image from production' at the point where you want it stopped which saves the image as a JPG. Split the video where that image was taken. Insert the still image for 10 seconds. Add the text to the still image and you're on your way.

 

The highlight would be a little harder since Videowave 9 doesn't have keyframing on the overlays.