How do i use the Timewarp Filter?

[Jason Brown]

I’m not sure if this is the best method, but on our Media Composer…I’ll drop a clip way longer than I need it to be…then keyframe motion, then just add edit to cut off what I don’t need when I’m done.

-Jason

[Milton Hockman]

HOW DO I KEYFRAME MOTION WITHOUT USING THE TIMEWARP FILTER?

[Michael Hancock]

No reason to shout. Xpress Pro doesn’t allow for keyframeable motion effects–unfortunately. In the older Xpress Meridien it was an option, but when they abandoned the hardware based Avid for the software Xpress lost this function (among a few others).

I don’t do timewarps in Xpress Pro specifically because I don’t have the control I would get on our Media Composer or Xpress Meridien, so I can’t tell you how to get the effect you want. However, I will get on the Xpress Pro tomorrow and to see if I can figure it out for you. In the meantime, hit F1 in the Avid to pull up the help file and read through it (do a search for Timewarp), or break out the manual. There’s information in both that should help you out.

Mike.

[Grinner Hester]

Ya can’t drag the out pint of a clip with a motino warp but you can trim it with a numeric value. So like if you slow it down to 50% with fluid motion, you can enter trim mode and hit 30 to make it a second longer.
To ‘keyframe’ with motion effects, set an in and out point in your source window and speed it up to 1000 percent of whatever ya like. overrite it in. Then on your out point of your source monitor, make an in point. Lay that new clip at reel time speed from there. Looks perty cool. Very survivor when mixed with some sapphire glows.

[Milton Hockman]

are you saying that i can lengthen my clip after the motion effect is applied? and create a new out point? that is what i want to do without having to re insert the clip into the timeline and start over.

for example, if i have a clip in the timeline that is 2 seconds long (with in and out points), and i apply timewarp and shorten the clip to 1 second long (now playing at 200% speed) then i can enter trim mode and change the length and that will lengthen the clip longer but not change speed??

that is wat i want to do.

[Grinner Hester]

two ways to do it:
1. enter trim mode at the end of your clip and type 30 enter. This’ll make it one second longer, eating into the next clip. You can then lasso that clip from right to left, entering slip mode. hit a -30 and it otta be ending exactly where ya want it.
2. enter effect mode over that clip and drag the motion effect to a bin. Reoverite that clip with a new in point then repply the effect.

[Milton Hockman]

thanks! ill try it