How to Slow a Clip the best way?

[Steve Roberts]

How did you apply Time Remapping? What was the process?
Do you want the clip to play at a constant slow speed, or gradually slow down to 50%?
What do you mean “looked the same”? What looked the same as what?
Did you time stretch to 200%?

[Milton Hockman]

i am not sure if it is just the time causing softness or how i am importing. check out my other thread next to this one about going from AVid to AE and back.

But i tried both ways using time stretch and time remapping from the menu created a keyframe at the beginning of footage, when 10 frames down, created another one and moved that one to the 20 frame mark to make 50%

i want a constant speed of 50%

Motion Graphics Artist and Non-Linear Editor
Software expertise include: After Effects, Avid Xpress Pro, Final Cut Pro, Dvd Studio Pro, Photoshop, and more.

[Steve Roberts]

Time stretch or remap doesn’t make the clip soft. That would be your importing and interpreting (file>interpret footage>main. Make sure the clip is interpreted at its original size and frame rate. If it is interlaced, and you want to scale/rotate/move/blur/distort the clip, you should separate frames. If it is not interlaced, you should set field separation (in the interpret footage dialog) to “off”. Check this, since separating an interlaced clip can soften it.

If you want constant speed of 50%, you should just Time Stretch (not remap, that’s for fancier time changes) the layer to 200%. If you right-click on a column in the timeline, you should be able to make a Time Stretch column visible, and make the change there.