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Creating basic time remapping

Creating basic time remapping - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating basic time remapping

- One of the most flexible ways to control time is using keyframes. In After Effects, you can select the clip and apply Time Remapping option to it. This will give you the option to set keyframes in the important parts of the clip, and then you can move them closer to speed up the motion, or spread them apart to slow down time. To get the most out of this though you should also combine it with Frame Blending. Now depending on the selected method, it can create the illusion of motion blur when you speed up your footage, or invent new frames when slowing it down. Okay, so we are going to use the same footage. I just want to remind you that we have a skateboard jumper. This is 100%. I haven't changed it at all. I just trimmed the composition, so we'll have a better sense of what we are doing. Now instead of doing it in a linear fashion, I actually want to control the timing inside the shot. So let's imagine that we need to convey the same information but using the same seven seconds and…

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