Time Remapping in Premiere Pro

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Hi, this is Margaret with Noble Desktop. Today, we'll be learning time remapping in Premiere Pro. Make sure to have all the items checked in your wrench tool before you start. Time remapping is the ability to have speed decelerate and accelerate as you see fit. For example, if you click on a clip and say Command + R and then 300, that's just one speed. There's no variation in that speed. Time remapping allows you to create variations in your speed.

To get to the time remapping function, you can control-click on any clip and say "Show Clip Keyframes Time Remapping Speed" or go to the tiny Effects item in the corner of every one of your clips and select "Time Remapping Speed". Now you have a time remapping line. It's not an opacity line like you'd have with the Opacity line. It's in the middle of the clip.

So, let's determine what areas we want to use time remapping on. I'm going to start right at the beginning and use the pen tool (P for pen) to determine where you'd like to start and stop. I'm going to stay right here. This area from here to here, I'd like there to be an acceleration.

It's very important after you've created your two points or more that you leave the pen tool and go back to the selector tool because time remapping will not work while you're in the pen tool. If you want to go fast, boost it up, or to go slow, pull down. You can also ramp the speed so it's less abrupt.

Now let's say that here I'd like this to be slow motion. Using the pen tool (P for pen), pull down to make it slow. After you do this, be sure to go back to the selector tool. The space between your two points will increase when you make it slow.

Let's make something go backwards in time remapping. Open up the time remapping option, make two points, and go back to the selector tool. On the first point, hold the command key and pull out. You will notice little arrows, indicating it will go backwards. Then, it repeats itself. This clip is as it was before, not backwards. It's a funny quirk in Premiere that it doesn't allow you to just go backwards. It goes backwards, then shows the clip as it originally was forward.

For other adjustments, you can also use the effects control panel. Move the pinpoint up to make it faster, or use the command key to pull out and make it go backwards. You can do the same things here as on the timeline.

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