Motion 5 - Adjusting a Video Clip’s Speed

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Adjusting a Video Clip’s Speed

Motion allows you to easily change the timing of video objects in the Timeline.

To shorten the video clip’s duration and speed up its playback speed

1

With the pointer over the end of a video clip’s object bar (the Out point), press and hold
down the Option key.

The pointer turns into the retime pointer.

2

Drag the Out point of the clip’s bar to the left.

As you drag, the tooltip displays the clip’s speed and duration.

Note: To use the retime pointer, Constant Speed must be chosen from the Time Remap
pop-up menu in the Properties Inspector. When Variable Speed is chosen, the retime
pointer has no effect. You cannot retime images, effects, and other non-video objects.

To lengthen a video object’s duration and slow down its playback speed

1

With the pointer over the end of a video clip’s object bar (the Out point), press and hold
down the Option key.

The pointer turns into the retime pointer.

2

Drag the Out point of the clip’s bar to the right.

As you drag, the tooltip displays the clip’s speed and duration.