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  • best way to speed up ENTIRE (already edited) video?

    Posted by Larry Smet on October 2, 2020 at 5:16 pm

    I’ve completed all my edits in a video, including speeding up/slowing down multiple clips to match with narration. I would like to speed up the entire video (i.e., the entire project from 9 minutes long to 7 minutes long, evenly) but all tutorials are about how to speed up a single clip. I also want the audio pitch to stay the same – audio should just be faster, but at the same tone. Any suggestions? Thanks!

    Nick Mars replied 5 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Blaise Douros

    October 2, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    Bring your exported final file into a new sequence in Premiere. Right-Click on the clip in the timeline, and select Speed/Duration: set the new length, and check the box “Maintain Audio Pitch.” Export a new copy, and you’re done.

    Alternately, you can bring the original 9 minute final sequence into a new sequence as a clip, and doing the same procedure–I’ve never tried it this way, but it should be possible, theoretically. You won’t be able to watch it in realtime, but you won’t have to double export.

    Don’t expect it to be flawless–there are better speed-to-pitch algorithms than Premiere’s, but most of them would require painstaking roundtrips to dedicated audio apps. It’ll be good enough.

  • Andy Ford

    October 4, 2020 at 4:17 pm

    If you notice any audio hiccups doing this, you can always bring your soundtrack into Audition and retime and maintain pitch to arguably better results.

  • Nick Mars

    October 6, 2020 at 5:24 pm

    Just want to bump this. Especially with dialogue heavy stuff, Audition does a way better job of this for me

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