User Manual

Speed Effects and Retiming
Speed effects describe any effect that speeds up, slows down, or otherwise changes the
playback speed of clips in the Timeline. There are four basic ways you can create speed effects
in DaVinci Resolve.
 Importing speed effects: DaVinci Resolve is capable of reading linear speed effects
from imported EDL, AAF, and XML projects, and nonlinear speed effects from XML and
AAF project files. When speed effects are present, DaVinci Resolve plays clips at the
specified speed. You can also create speed effects of your own using controls in the
Edit page. There are two methods of adjusting clip speed: using the Change Speed
dialog, and using the Retiming effect in the Timeline.
 Creating speed effects using Fit to Fill edits: You can also change a clip’s speed in
the Timeline by editing it using the Fit to Fill command, which retimes the clip to fit into
an arbitrary duration in the Timeline of your choosing. For more information on using
Fit to Fill, see Chapter 30, “Three- and Four-Point Editing.”
 Creating freeze frames: You can use the freeze frame command to turn an entire clip
into a freeze frame of a frame intersecting the playhead.
 Creating simple linear speed effects: You can create simple fast or slow-motion
speed effects by using the Change Clip Speed command, or by using the left and right
handles of the Retime controls in the Timeline. Both of these methods are described in
this section.
 Creating variable speed effects: You can create much more complex variable speed
effects, where the same clip speeds up or slows down multiple times by different
amounts, using either the Retime controls, or one of the two different speed curves that
are available. These methods are also covered later in this section.
Speed Effects and Audio
Any of the methods of creating linear speed effects that are available in
DaVinci Resolve, including the Change Clip Speed command, the Retime controls, and
the Fit to Fill edit, will retime a clip’s audio, without pitch correction on Linux and
Windows, and with pitch correction on Mac OS X (Yosemite and above), along with its
video. However, audio that accompanies variable speed effects will be muted.
Creating Freeze Frames
There are a few ways you can create a freeze frame, but the fastest is to position the playhead
over the frame you want to be the freeze frame, and choose Clip > Freeze Frame, or press
Shift-R. The entire clip becomes a freeze frame of the frame you parked the playhead over.
If you want to disable the freeze frame effect, you can select the clip and use the Remove
Attributes dialog to remove the speed effect, or you can simply open the Change Clip Speed
dialog and turn the Freeze Frame checkbox off.
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