From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
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Compressing and expanding time in video and audio - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
Compressing and expanding time in video and audio
If there's one thing about documentary editing, it's that you're constantly dealing with trying to compress or stretch time. Almost never are you dealing strictly in real-time, and we've already learned some great techniques for dealing with larger time issues like montage editing and parallel editing and process footage editing. Here however, we'll take a look at a very powerful speed tool called the Timeshift plug-in, and that allows us to make more minute speed changes. All right, so I have here, the portion of the documentary that deals with BD on his farm and here he's driving to the farmers market and he's chatting about what the farmers market means to him, but he's a little poky, he is not really spitting it out fast enough and kind of lags. I'm not going to play the whole thing, but I will play a sample of it for you can see what the main issue is. And by the way, we do hear the truck we will I send that to sound design and make sure that we get some noise reduction here, but…
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