User Guide

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 2.0

User Guide

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To change a clip’s speed using the Rate Stretch tool

You can change a clip’s speed to fit a duration.

❖ Select the Rate Stretch tool , and drag either edge of a clip in the Timeline panel.

Changing clip speed using the Rate Stretch tool

To blend frames for smooth motion

Motion in a clip may appear jerky when you change the speed of a clip, or output to a different frame rate. Make sure

that frame blending is on to create new interpolated frames that smooth the motion.

❖ Choose Clip > Video Options > Frame Blend.

To freeze a video frame

You can freeze one frame of a clip, so that only that frame appears for the duration of the clip, as if you imported the

frame as a still image. You can freeze on the clip’s In point, Out point, or at marker 0 (zero), if present.

1 Select a clip in the Timeline panel.

2 TofreezeaframeotherthantheInorOutpoint,opentheclipintheSourceMonitor,andsetMarker0(zero)to

the frame you want to freeze.

3 Choose Clip > Video Options > Frame Hold.

4 Select Hold On, and select the frame you want to hold from the menu.

5 Specify the following options as necessary, and then click OK:

Hold Filters Prevents keyframed effect settings (if any are present) from animating during the duration of the clip.

Effect settings use the values at the held frame.

Deinterlace Removes one field from an interlaced video clip and doubles the remaining field, so that field artifacts

(such as combing) are not apparent in the freeze frame.

Note: If you set the hold frame on an In or Out point, changing the edit point doesn’t change the freeze frame. If you set

the hold on Marker 0, moving the marker changes the frame displayed