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pression allows you to speed up or slow down the play-out of a clip, for
instance, for slow/fast motion purposes or to match your project’s pace.
For this the respective timeline element can be automatically resized in
the timeline, left in its original size (set via the clip’s in- and outpoint) or
adjusted to the desired length manually in the timeline.
You can configure the time stretching or time compression via the menu
option Time stretching… on the context menu of a clip (see section
“The Context Menu of Video Clips” on page 6-61 and section “The
Context Menu of Audio Clips” on page 6-75). It will open the follow-
ing window:
Figure 6-54: Time stretching or time compression configuration
To configure the time stretching or time compression use the items of-
fered under Manual. When adjusting the slider, the factor value in the
entry field to the right changes accordingly. Alternatively, you can enter
a factor directly in the entry field to the right of the slider:
When changing the timing of audio clips, no pitch control is
provided. Thus it should be used for slight timing changes only.
For frequency changes of the timeline, e.g. when playing out
or finalizing with a different video raster, an automatic retiming
of audio can be configured (see figure in section “How to Con-
figure the Video Output” on page 6-12 and section “Config-
uring Audio” on page 6-86).
Factor
Slider
Movement
Meaning
<1 left
Values less than one (1) mean that the clip
gets time stretched, i.e. its play-out will be
slower (slow motion).
> 1 right
Values greater than one (1) indicate a time
compression of the video clip, i.e. its speed
will be increased (fast motion).