From the course: After Effects Guru: Time-Based Effects
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Understanding time stretching and frame blending - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Time-Based Effects
Understanding time stretching and frame blending
- In this chapter, we'll discuss the different methods of manipulating speed inside After Effects, from the basic stretch through time remapping and time warping. I'm also going to show how to choose between different interpolation methods, overcome quality issues, and for dessert, we'll even create morphs between images. But we'll start with the basics of how to change the speed of a clip in the timeline, and then talk about the two options you have for frame blending. So, we are going to start by selecting this clip over here and first I'm going to press cmd + opt + b which will be ctrl + alt + b on the PC of course and create a short RAM preview. So you're gonna get a sense of the clip that I'm going to use. So we have this skateboard jumper over here, and the first thing that I want to show you is how to slow it down. Now there are a couple of ways to do it inside After Effects. One of them will be to go to the Layer menu and then from Time, you can choose Time Stretch. Now you…
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