Time Remap?????

[Shane Ross]

http://www.proapptips.com/captmench. Click on the TIME REMAP tutorial and see how easy it is.

It took that tutorial to make me get it…

Shane

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[Max Frank]

I second that motion – it’s a GREAT tutorial!

W.

[Kevin Monahan]

The tutorial was going on well until he hit the Motion Tab. NOooooooooo! There is no control over the keyframes position in the graph when you are just clicking and dragging around there.

I don’t use the Motion Tab at all because it is not precise enough. The “angle” explanation is really only half of what is going on. When you get your head FULLY wrapped around what you are doing when you move these “very special” keyframes, then you will want the additional control that only the Speed Tool can give you.

I use the Speed Tool and stay in the Timeline. It’s way better because it gives you an interactive pop up “tool tip” showing what is really going on as you click and drag the tool – you do NOT get the same kind of interactive feedback in the Motion Tab.

As Capt. showed in the beginning of the tut. – Just widen up your Timeline in Clip Keyframes mode (I widen them even further by clicking and dragging in the gutter next to the Auto Select button) and enable the Time Remap “graph” by CNTRL + Clicking right in the track.

Once you are set up this way, you can REALLY control the movement of the Time Remap Keyframe. Note that when a keyframe is constrained and moved vertically (by clicking and dragging the tool), you are spooling through available frames of the clip. When a keyframe is constrained and moved horizontally (By Option + dragging with the tool), you are taking that particular frame and moving it to a new place in time.

Either way, will affect the speed of the clip AND you know exactly what is going on and can pick precise frames. In the Motion Tab you cannot constrain that keyframe’s movement. Constraining the keyframe horizontally and vertically gives you a lot more control with Time Remapping.

I like the explanation in my book much better. Although the Capt.’s tutorial was OK, it doesn’t really show you the power of the Speed Tool and how it can give you more info and power: The Info Pop up’s interactive display, the power to constrain the keyframe horizontally and vertically AND see the curve all in the Timeline is the superior way to Time Remap.

Go tell it to the judge!

Kevin Monahan
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