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Using the Rate Stretch tool

Using the Rate Stretch tool

If you have ever worked on a project where the audio file set the timing of the piece than this next tool is the ultimate tool for you. It's the Rate Stretch tool. As is often the case as we have here, we have our snowboard clip and then we have some audio. Often times we need to get them to work together. We need the snowboarding clip to take place entirely within the time of this audio. In our case here if we preview the snowboarding footage, it is kind of already in slow motion. As you could see it going back here. It has already slowed down a little bit. So, what we're going to do is we're going to speed it up exactly to about this point right here and we don't have to right-click and then go to Speed/Duration and then just keep guessing. We could use the Rate Stretch tool which is right up here in the Tools panel. The keyboard shortcut is X because the icon kind of looks like an X. So I'm going to click over here and then I'm going to go to the end of this clip as if I were…

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