Easy way to hold frame for longer than clip’s original length?

[David Tannenbaum]

I found this by doing a search for “freeze frame time remapping” in Premiere Under the Help menu===> Adobe Premiere Help

Freeze a frame

You can freeze one frame of a clip, either for a set time or for the entire duration of the clip (as if you imported the frame as a still image). If you freeze a frame for only a portion of the clip, you can also create a speed transition to or from the freeze frame.

Franklin McMahon has this video tutorialon freezing a frame using the Frame Hold command and changing speed & duration for an entire clip.

Freeze a frame for a portion of a clip
In a Timeline panel, click on the Clip Effect menu and choose Time Remapping > Speed. (The Clip Effect menu appears next to the filename of every clip in a video track. You might have to zoom in to make enough room in the clip to display it.)

Choosing Time Remapping > Speed from a video effect control
A horizontal rubber band that controls the speed of the clip appears across the center of the clip. The clip is shaded in contrasting colors above and below the 100% speed demarcation. A white speed-control track appears in the upper portion of the clip, just below the clip title bar.

Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) on the rubber band to create a speed keyframe .
Ctrl+Alt-drag (Windows) or Option+Command-drag (Mac OS) the speed keyframe to the place at which you want the freeze frame to end.
Note: Be sure to drag the rubber band horizontally, not vertically as you do with other keyframes.
A second keyframe is created at the place where you dropped the keyframe. The inner half keyframes, the hold keyframes, take on a squared appearance as compared with regular speed keyframes. You cannot drag a hold keyframe unless you create a speed transition for it. Vertical tic marks appear in the speed control track to indicate the segment of the clip that is playing freeze frames.

It’s fairly easy though not as well thought out as in After Effects.

[Jon Barrie]

You are already doing it the most effective way, except to extend the duration you can use the Rate Stretch Tool to set the length you need. It can be pretty much unlimited. 🙂

Let us know how feel about using that.

Cheers JB

Jon Barrie
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[Christof Van niekerk]

Thanks for the reply David,

I suppose it is easy enough… but I agree that the AE way of doing it is more intuitive.

[Christof Van niekerk]

Thanks for the reply Jon,

Like David says: The thinking is just a bit different.
I’m sure someone going from Premiere to AE would also be a bit confused.

Would be nice to “enable” time remapping in PR and immediately have the clip’s natural timed keys available for you to manipulate – like in AE. (add/delete/hold keys)