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  • Posted by Stephen Fenn on February 29, 2008 at 11:58 am

    Hello all,
    I have extensively researched how I have to go about doing this but with no luck.
    What I want to do is take a clip, mark a keyframe, make everything to the left of that 25% speed lets say, and everything to the right 100% with it ramping from one speed to the other.
    Seems simple yet I cannot do it.
    Every time I use the time remap tool click and hold down and move to one side it adjusts both sides at the same time, i.e. it changes incrementally 99%-left, 101%-right, then 98%-left and 102%-right etc. What I want is to be able to have variable speed with the left side on say 50% and the right on 100%.
    When I try to change it using the bezier handles on the time remap graph all hell breaks loose but more importantly it always gives me two handles which won’t work independently. So, what happens is that if you get the handle right on the left hand side and it slows down gradually it is then set wrong for the right hand side. Infuriating.
    Any suggestions gratefully received.

    Stephen Fenn replied 18 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Michael Sacci

    February 29, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    This is because you are not understanding what remap is trying to do, naming take the same footage (same frames at in and out points). So it will have to adjust both sides to make this happen.

    To do what you want to do there needs to be a cut (instead of a keyframe) then you make the clip to the right 25% and it will now push everything down, since the clip is 4x as long in duration. but the clip on the right will pick up where the other clip leaves off and be at 100%. Now you can adjust the start of the first clip to be later if you need it to fit in the same time slot as before.

  • Jeff Greenberg

    March 1, 2008 at 4:56 am

    Hold down the command key on the edge of the bezier handle. This allows you to “break” the two sides.

    Alternatively right click and choose make corner.

    Best,

    Jeff

    Best,

    Jeff G
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  • Stephen Fenn

    March 3, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Thanks guys. Working fine now.

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