Sean Meighan

General => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: rangerrick on March 07, 2019, 11:46:15 AM

Title: First time sequence open and the effects stop before the music does?
Post by: rangerrick on March 07, 2019, 11:46:15 AM

Hi all,

I have run into this scenario where I open somebody else's sequence and the recommended mp3 audio file but the model effects end long before the music does.  To solve the problem, I created a perl script to "stretch" the effects in the xml file and save it to a filename with _stretch in the name.  It's attached just in case anyone needs something like this.  It works like a charm for me.

Rick

Title: Re: First time sequence open and the effects stop before the music does?
Post by: allknowing2012 on March 07, 2019, 08:15:42 PM

Are you sure you got the right song?
(open the .xml file and look for clues in the file name)

Stretching the effects doesnt seem like it would work to well at matching the beats and song cues.

Title: Re: First time sequence open and the effects stop before the music does?
Post by: rangerrick on March 07, 2019, 11:30:37 PM

Absolutely.  The stretch cured the problem perfectly.  I wouldn't have posted this if it hadn't.

Title: Re: First time sequence open and the effects stop before the music does?
Post by: Gilrock on March 08, 2019, 07:19:05 AM

Yeah this just doesn't make sense.  I'm pretty sure there are not different versions of the songs floating around that are exactly the same except for a speed difference that causes a different length.  If the length is different then some portion of the song is missing.  Some of us edit songs to make them shorter.  So yeah you might get the effects to stretch out but they are not going to end up aligned to the music in the way that was originally intended.

Title: Re: First time sequence open and the effects stop before the music does?
Post by: rangerrick on March 08, 2019, 10:06:07 AM

I understand and agree with your assessment.  I shouldn't have had to do this in the first place.

However, according to the read me file with the Amazon URL to the exact song in each case this just seemed like something worth exploring.  And it worked. 

Title: Re: First time sequence open and the effects stop before the music does?
Post by: Gilrock on March 08, 2019, 10:14:31 AM

Show a video and let everyone critique the timing. :)