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To return a clip to its original speed:
Click the pop-up next to the speed percentage text at the bottom of the clip, and choose
Reset to 100%.
Rippling or Overwriting the Timeline When Using Retime
Whether or not clips to the right in the Timeline will ripple to accommodate the change in
duration resulting in speed changes you make with the Retime controls depends on whether
you’re using the Selection tool/mode (in which case the Timeline won’t ripple), or the Trim tool/
mode (in which case the Timeline will).
Reading Clip Speed Arrows
When you retime a clip, the Clip Speed pop-up menu displays the current speed of the entire
clip. Additionally, the arrows in the Retime control track show you the speed and direction of
playback. When clip speed is slowed down below 100%, the Retime control track shows yellow
playback triangles that are spaced farther apart. When clip speed is sped up above 100%, the
Retime control track shows blue triangles that are bunched closer together. At 100% normal
speed, the Retime control track shows blue, evenly spaced triangles, while left-facing blue
arrows indicates reverse playback.
Three clips set to different speeds. From left to right, 100% speed,
slow motion, and fast forward are indicated by the yellow arrows.
Creating Variable Speed Effects Using the Retime Controls
You can also use the Retime controls to insert freeze frames within the middle of a clip, and
create other custom variable speed effects using speed points. Additional variable speed
options include rewind and speed ramp effects, which automatically place speed points to
create preset effects.
To create a freeze frame at a particular moment in time:
1 With the Retime controls exposed, move the playhead to the frame you want to freeze,
within that clip. Ideally, this will be for an effect where you want a character in motion to
suddenly stop at a particular frame.
2 Open the Clip Speed pop-up menu (the pop-up next to the speed percentage text at
the bottom of the clip), and choose Freeze Frame. Two new speed points are added to
the clip, defining a range within which the clip is frozen at that frame. This can be seen
by the vertical red bars in the Retime control track. Past the second speed point, the
clip resumes playback from the next frame forward.
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