Changing Clip Speed and Rate Stretch Tool in Premiere Pro

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In This Video, You Will Learn How to Use the Speed Feature to Slow Down and Speed up Your Clips in Premiere Pro. We Will Also Look at the Tool for Speed Called the “Rate Stretch” Tool.

Hello, this is Margaret with Noble Desktop and today we will be looking at speed in Premiere Pro. Let's look at this clip and say I want to slow down the middle clip. I'm going to highlight the clip and press Command + R, the shortcut for speed. Now, this gives you a lot of options. What would you like to do? I want to slow it down, so I'm going to cut the speed in half. I could also reverse it, maintain audio pitch, and ripple edit shifting trails. We will look at this in another class. If I don't maintain audio pitch, you'll have a very "whomp" effect on the audio, which we will look at using a person, which makes it much more obvious. I'm just going to make sure that I check both of these and then I'll say "Okay". So you see how this got twice as large and looks like this.

Now I'm going to press Command + Z and what happens now if I were to speed it up, I'll say 300, and I will click both of these. There is audio I want to maintain ripple edit shifting trails, and this is what happens so it got much smaller and closed the gap.

If I were to select this and say 400 but uncheck ripple edit shifting trails, this is what happens—it just leaves an annoying gap for me to close myself.

So, let's look at this interview with Dan. Let's say I want to slow down this clip. I'll press Command + R, and let's say I want to slow it down to 50%. I'm going to maintain the audio pitch, ripple edit shifting trails, and say "Okay". Got twice as long.

There's also a speed tool called Rate Stretch, and the command for this is Command + R. The Rate Stretch tool has a lot of limits. One of its most important limits is that you can't extend it. I'm in R right now, it's not going to let me make it slower—I have to make it longer. If I'm in R and I pull something out, it won't do it because something's in its way.

If there's nothing in its way, I can pull this out and get slower. I can pull this in and it'll get faster. Same with this one. If I pull this in, it will get faster, if I pull it out, it'll get slower. I really want to use the Rate Stretch tool on this as opposed to using Command + R. I might just go ahead and put this on its own track and then press R and pull it out, press A (remember the Select Forward tool) and then move everything over.

I hope you've enjoyed this lesson on speed in Premiere Pro. This has been Margaret with Noble Desktop.