Operation Manual

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CHAPTER 6:
ALTERING SPEED
AND SUPPLYING
VIDEO EFFECTS
Altering Speeds
To invigorate your audience and enliven your movies with a different pace or
tempo, or to emphasize certain elements of meaningful clips, PowerDirector allows
you to go slo-mo or accelerate clips to previously unforeseen speeds! Any clip could
be slowed down to a crawl or sped up to the speed of light. As a director, utilize both
these mind-altering speed effects to throw your audience for a loop, because as any
sane person or scientist will protest to, time is relative to the observer except in the
warped parallel universe of PowerDirector.
1 Select a video clip from the Library by double-clicking on the selected file or
dragging it into the Preview Window. Refer to "Importing into the Library" on
page 27 for more information on importing.
2 To add effects to files that have already been applied to the Storyboard, simply
select the particular clip by double-clicking and it will be displayed in the
Preview Window.
3 Click Speed Mode on the Modes Wheel.
4 Drag the slider in order to slow or quicken up the video
speed. You may also click Increase Speed or Decrease
Speed with the range being 1/4X - 8X.