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Changing the speed of a clip

Changing the speed of a clip

In this chapter, we're going to look at several ways to adjust the speed of a clip, which is a really helpful tool in editing. We have here this footage of this dancing girl and she's just adorable as can be. That's my five-year-old little daughter there. What I'm going to do is right- click on a clip and I'm going to choose Speed/Duration. By default, the Speed/Duration value is set at 100%, meaning that it plays back at regular speed. We could type in 200 here and that will play this clip, if we click OK. It will shorten it, because it's now playing twice as fast. So it's now half the duration. So again, there is this relationship between speed of the clip and the duration. If we play this back, we see it's almost like a little Charlie Chaplin movie or something, kind of adorable there. I'm going to right-click again, go back to Speed/Duration, and you'll see that still remembers that same speed. This is a nondestructive act that we're doing here. I'm going to type in 50%. That's…

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