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Slowing and accelerating video speed

Slowing and accelerating video speed - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training

Slowing and accelerating video speed

One of things that we After Effects users do on quite a regular basis is to play around with the speed of clips. We slow them down, or speed them up. So, I want to show you a little bit about how to do that here. We have two different clips that we're going to be looking at. The first one is this dancing girl clip. This is actually my little daughter Natalie. And the footage is blurry, but still adorable nonetheless. And she is dancing around here, having a good time to Frosty the Snowman. And so what I am going to do is go over here to the column in the Timeline panel, maybe next where it says, Parent, or one of mode switches areas, whatever. Right-click on this bar, and then go to Columns. These are different columns that we can access here, just like Parent is a Column, and layer Name is a Column. We'll go to Columns, and choose Stretch. This allows us to control the stretch of the clip. So, if we took this down, it stretches to maybe only, like 50% of the clip. Then it's basically…

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