To slow down a clip that has another clip on its right in the Advanced view timeline, drag it to an empty track or to the end of the movie. This way, you can stretch it without bumping into an adjacent clip.
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- Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
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- Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
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- Best practices to create a time-lapse video
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- Create a picture-in-picture overlay
- Applying effects using Adjustment layers
- Adding Title to your movie
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Learn to change the speed of the clip using Time Stretch and Time Remapping in Premiere Elements.
Change a clip’s speed
To create a fast or slow motion effect, change the clip speed. Changing clip speed changes the clip’s duration. Speeding up a clip removes frames, thus shortening the clip duration. In the same way, slowing down a clip repeats frames and, therefore, adds to the length of a clip. For audio clips, a change in speed also changes pitch. The Time Stretch command includes an option to maintain the original pitch of an audio clip at any speed.
You can change a clip’s speed using the Advanced view timeline only. Not the Sceneline.
When you change the speed of a clip containing interlaced fields, you may need to adjust how Premiere Elements processes the fields, especially when the speed drops below 100% of the original speed.
Change a clip’s speed by using Time Stretch
Premiere Elements now has improved Time Stretch, which can be used to change the speed of a clip or duration; it also has a button to link/unlink speed and duration.
Speed: This setting controls how fast or slow a clip plays back. It is expressed in percent. 100% Speed means the clip plays at its original, real-time speed. Less than 100% will slow down the clip, creating a slow-motion effect and increasing the clip's duration. Greater than 100% will speed up the clip, creating a fast-motion effect and decreasing the clip's duration.
Duration: The total length of a clip after you've adjusted its speed. You can change the speed of a clip by speeding it up or slowing it down.
Linked (Chain Icon): When Speed and Duration are linked, any change you make to the clip's speed will automatically adjust its duration. For example, if you reduce the speed of a clip (making it slower), its duration will increase accordingly, and if you increase the speed (making it faster), its duration will decrease.
Unlinked (Broken Chain Icon): When Speed and Duration are unlinked, you can change the speed of the clip without affecting its duration, or you can change the duration without altering the speed.
Reverse Speed: Select this checkbox to play a clip backward. The clip will run from its end to its beginning, effectively reversing the action.
Maintain Audio Pitch: You can maintain the audio pitch by ticking the Maintain Audio Pitch function. The changes you make to the parameters are applied to the clip dynamically. You can revert to the original state by clicking the Reset icon in the top bar. You can close the panel using a cross at the top left. To close it, we will also have a Save and Exit panel. Please account for that in the panel.
Time stretch can be used by selecting a clip, right-clicking, selecting Time Stretch from the context menu, or selecting a clip and then selecting Tools > Time Stretch.
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Select the clip in the Advanced view timeline.
Note:If you haven’t yet inserted the clip into the Advanced view timeline, you can select it in the Project Assets panel instead.
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Choose Clip > Time Stretch. Alternatively, click the Tools panel on the Action bar and choose Time Stretch.
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In the Time Stretch dialog box, type a percentage for Speed. A value less than 100% slows down the clip; a value greater than 100% increases its speed.
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(Optional) To keep the pitch of an audio clip unchanged, select Maintain Audio Pitch.
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Click OK. Preview your changes, and then make adjustments as necessary.
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If you moved the clip in step 1, drag it back into place in the movie.
Duration can be changed from the dialog, and the speed will change accordingly when linked.
Change the speed and duration of multiple clips
You can change the speed and duration of multiple clips when you are in the Advanced view.
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Do one of the following to select multiple clips:
To select non-consecutive clips, Shift-click each clip.
To select consecutive clips, click in the Timeline panel and drag a marquee around the selected clips.
To select all the clips, press Ctrl-A.
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Select Clip > Time Stretch to modify the selected clips' speed and duration.
You can vary the speed of the video portion of a clip. Use Time Remapping to create slow-motion and fast-motion effects within a single clip in both Advanced and Quick view.
Time Remapping is available in the tools section. Import and select a clip, then select Tools > Time Remapping to open the Time Remapping panel.
Time remapping can be applied only to video clips, images, or time-stretched clips. . For audio-only clips, you can change speed and duration as well. The Time Remapping panel has the given adjustments:
Range: By marking the section, we can select the range of the clip we want to use for time remapping.
Range Speed: The speed input field or the speed scroll bar can change the speed of a section. The clip duration can also be changed, and the speed will automatically change according to the duration entered.
Ramp: The Ramp function smooths out a clip's speed. You can adjust the time you want to smooth it using the text field or the slider.
Maintain Audio Pitch: You can maintain the audio pitch by ticking the Maintain Audio Pitch function. The changes you make to the parameters are applied to the clip dynamically. You can revert to the original state by clicking the Reset icon in the top bar. You can close the panel using a cross at the top left. To close it, we will also have a Save and Exit panel.
Set Clip Duration using Time Remapping
You can set the clip's duration using the Time Remapping tool by entering or adjusting the time in the Clip Duration field under the Time Remapping panel. You can edit the blue colored time duration as per your requirement.
Premiere Elements offers a guided edit for creating a slow or fast motion effect. Use this time remapping guided edit to add dramatic effects to your video. For more information see, Time remapping Guided Edit.
Set the duration of a clip using Time Stretch
The duration of a video or audio clip is the length of time it plays from its first frame (In point) to its last frame (Out point). The initial duration of a clip is the same as it was when the clip was imported or captured. Most often, you change a clip’s duration by trimming frames from either end. But you can also trim the end of a clip by designating a specific duration.
Unlike video, still images are not limited to the length of the original clip. You can set their duration to any length.
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Select a clip in the Project Assets panel or in the Advanced view timeline.
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Choose Clip > Time Stretch.
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In the Time Stretch dialog box, click the Link button to link speed and duration. When linked, changing the duration also changes the playback speed of the clip.
Note:When you increase the speed beyond a certain limit, the duration changes even if you have unlinked speed and duration.
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Type a new duration, and click OK.
Reverse the playback of a clip
Reversing a clip plays the clip backward, Out point to In point. You can also reverse the clip and change its speed. You can reverse a clip using Time Stretch in the Advanced view timeline.
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Select the clip in the Advanced view timeline.
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Select Tools > Time Stretch.
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(Optional) To change the speed of the clip, type a percentage for Speed in the Time Stretch dialog box. A value less the 100% slows down the clip; a value greater than 100% increases its speed.
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Select Reverse Speed, and click OK.