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The Retime Curves let you adjust the transition from one speed to another using handles
No matter how you like to work, the control points of each of the speed curves have a 1:1
correspondence to the speed points that are exposed in the Retime controls, and curve
segment modifications are mirrored by speed point adjustments in the Retime controls if you
have both exposed at the same time. This means that, when creating complex variable retiming
effects, it’s easy to drag whichever control most easily adjusts the quality of speed you require.
In addition, there are two kinds of Retime curves you can use for maximum flexibility. Which is
best depends on what you’re more comfortable with, and on which will handle the type of
motion you want to create more easily:
The Retime Frame curve exposes a diagonal line that represents a time graph. This
is a type of curve found in many other post-production applications, in which the
vertical axis represents each frame of that clip’s source media, and the horizontal axis
represents each frame of playback in the Timeline. With the default diagonal graph,
there is a one-to-one correspondence between each frame of source media and each
frame of timeline playback; this represents 100% speed. However, adding control points
lets you alter how source frames are mapped to the Timeline. For any two control
points on the Retime Frame curve, so long as the control point at the left is lower than
the control point at the right of a curve segment, there will be forward motion, with
longer shallow curve segments creating slower motion, and steeper shorter curve
segments creating faster motion in the clip.
A diagonal Retime Frame curve with two segments: a long shallow segment to the left that
creates slow motion, and a short steep segment to the right that creates fast motion
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