Part 2: Time Remapping: Final Cut Pro 5 Tutorial

Video Transcript

" This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip we will continue to talk about time remapping. All right now,two time remap key frames have been added here. If you double click this and open this up in the viewer and go over to motion, let me enlarge this for you, you will notice now that you have these two key frames at the bottom under time remap. Let me go ahead and twirl this down and here are your time remap key frames; they are right in here. Now each key frame has a Bezier handle on it. As you can see it has its own little handles. There's the key frame and the handle comes off of it. That causes the clip to ramp from slow to normal speed at the beginning and from normal to slow at the end. As you can see, it's not a straight line. It's an S curve. That's what you'll be working with, S curves. So now the Y access. The Y access is up and down so moving key frames up or down. When you choose a value from the key frame on the Y access you are choosing a frame from the clips original media file. So when you drag a time remapped key frame up and down on the Y access, a tool appears that displays which media file frame you are assigning to that point in time in your clip. So as you move the key frame up, you choose a later frame in your clips media file. So watch now while I pull this up. Watch my canvas. Okay. I'm not actually. The tool tip shows the frames, which frame it is on. I am not just affecting the clip that is in the time line, I am affecting the entire media file. So when the time line is the shorter version of the clip and up in your browser is the full version of a clip and your time remapping actually affects the entire clip; the full version. So let me go ahead and undo that. The point that it is at now, this point and down at the bottom of that point, the top point and the bottom point, that represents your in and out in this clip down in your time line. So if I move it up and instead of the clip being extended it is being sped up to reach later in the clip. So this is where this gets a little confusing because it works differently from all the other key framing for all the other affects and filters. So I just basically by going to the top and bringing this to the bottom, I have now just fast forwarded it through my entire clip and not just the clip in my time line, but my entire media file. "