From the course: After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks

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Use Time Remap

Use Time Remap

High speed photography lends itself naturally to time remapping, which is the feature in After Effects that lets you bend time. To add maximum drama to a shot, skillful use of this feature lets you go beyond mere slow motion or realism and pull some of the actual magic out of the shot. So, I'm going to actually use time remapping to emphasize the center part of the shot where he's flying over the car. One way we can do that is to just put that part into slow motion. So let's try that first. I'll set a key frame here to key point where he goes over the nose of the car. So, we want to hold that key frame in place. And then we also want to hold this one back here where he just goes over the trunk. Now I need time remapping on the car as well. So I'll just set that. And add the two corresponding keyframes. So my comp is pretty long. I'm just going to go to the end and extend these layers, whether I need it or not. Now let's try moving some keyframes outward for the slow-mo effect. So it's…

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