User Guide

Chapter 5: Video clips 105
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TIME EFFECTS
Availability: Unrestricted use of the effects in this group is not
included with the SE and QuickStart versions of Studio. Until
unlocked with the appropriate activation key, a “watermark” graphic
appears over part of the video frame when clips using any of the
effects are played back. See page 11 for details.
Time effects change the tempo of playback without
affecting the appearance of the video frames
themselves.
Speed
This effect allows you to set the speed of any video clip
from one-tenth to five times normal. Set the slider to
the speed you wish to apply to the clip. Notice that the
clip changes length in the Movie Window as you vary
its speed.
Playback speed is increased by omitting frames.
Here, the movie will run at triple speed. In the first
nine frames of the original clip (top), two out of
every three frames will be dropped when the final
movie (bottom) is generated.
Conversely, you can change the playback speed of a
clip directly on the Movie Window Timeline. After
selecting the clip and opening the parameters panel for