Speed up a Single Video Clip (Fast Forward)

islandertek wrote on 1/10/2009, 9:44 PM

I am looking for help!! Please!! I am trying to play a single clip in fast forward, while the rest of the clips are normal. For instance, downtown city traffic. Speeding up a 5 minute clip into a few seconds while the following clip plays at normal tempo.

Any suggestions??

Thanks!!

Comments

MSmart wrote on 1/10/2009, 9:50 PM

Hold down the CTRL key then drag the trailing edge of the clip to the left. You may not be able to speed it up that much. However, you can ctrl-drag it left as far as it will go, render it to a new AVI file then bring that into your timeline and ctrl-drag it again to speed it up further.

i c e wrote on 1/10/2009, 9:53 PM

Hold Control and shrink the clip

islandertek wrote on 1/11/2009, 1:57 AM

Thanks to both!! It worked out well!!

Hondo wrote on 1/15/2009, 1:33 PM

Another way is to Right Click on the clip, go to properties, and under the Video Event tab change the Playback rate, higher to speed it up, lower to slow it down.

jetdv wrote on 1/15/2009, 5:54 PM

Hondo, that's exactly the same as holding down the CTRL key and making the clip smaller - except the clip length doesn't change when you manually change the properties.