On 1 Jun 2003 19:31:40 -0700, chan_waikeong@hotmail.com (Chan WK) wrote:

>How much can I speed up a video while still making not not noticeable

>to majority of viewers?

>

>I guess it depends on the type of material, right? (sports scenes

>probably has higher margin than dialog scenes?)

>

>My priority is home-made video which I sometimes need to speed up in

>order to make it fit onto a CDR. TIA.

You can speed up video 2X if you add a ".5 horizontal

Better Gaussian blur" in Premiere, and you can alter the

audio track seperately to keep the pitches correct in a

program like Cool Edit - but it may not look very

normal...;-) Changing the speed in other than even

proportions (like 2X, .5X) can result in odd effects,

though some program (Vegas Video?) may be able to do

it smoothly. Better: compress a bit more for the

CDR, or go to DVD...