Retiming to lengthen or shorten music and clips

- Some say timing is everything,…and if you've ever edited the perfect clip…to cover a segment of narration…only to discover it's not long enough to cover it,…I'm sure you'd agree.…But, don't fret and don't go looking for a different clip.…Not just yet.…Trust your instincts and then simply…change the speed of the clip.…This technique may not always work,…but it's always worth a try.…In the project library, let's open the "Retiming" project.…

In this project we have three clips,…well, one's a compound clip of stills,…but we'll refer to that as a single clip.…Notice that the compound clip matches pretty well…to the end of Paul talking,…but the music clip stops short.…Now, this might happen in your own project,…where you have a music track and you like it,…and maybe whoever was shooting the music…shot a good amount of it,…what they thought was a good amount,…but it just didn't turn out to be…long enough for what you wanted to use it for.…

Sometimes you don't know that until you…get into the editing room.…You have a couple of choices.…