Time Remapping & Key Frames in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

" This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I will show you where you can adjust your time remapping parameters. So now let's talk about the different areas for controlling time remapping. There are four places in Final Cut Pro where you can make variable speed adjustment. The first is the timeline. Now you need to make sure that clipping is on which is this little button down here. It says toggle clip key frames. Turn that on and then we are going to go ahead and use the time remap tool. So come on over here where the slip and slide tools are, and next to that you have the time re mapped tool. It's a little clock with some brackets on it. So you can use that tool on a clip here to essentially do what we did in the motion tab but just down here. Now you notice that these little talley marks down below These are your time indicators. You will notice how in the middle here they are closer together than on the outside where they are farther apart. They are farther apart where they are slower and closer together where it is faster. So you just click and hold on the clip and you notice now that you have this tool tip that shows you your old source frame and now the new source frame. So you can click it, drag it right or to the left and you can see how it is affecting the speed. Where to the left is now getting slower and to the right is now getting faster. So let's go ahead and just pop over here. Then it turns red and I see red. Red is going in reverse. If you look at here, here in your motion tab, you can now the curve is going downward. When the curve is always going upward, it is playing forward. When the curve goes downward, it is then playing backwards so now you have footage as playing backwards. Let me just go ahead and raise these up so that you see what is exactly going on. All right, how you can view that while I am changing here in the time line. Now you click with this and it will make a key frame; as you see, just made a key frame and now it has a nice little steady ramp. You can click and drag and as I'm dragging middle of reverse, you can see now it kind of dips down and goes back up. You can choose a point on here where you would want it to slow down. You can go ahead and click and make a key frame or even this click and drag; just make it a little bit faster around the edges. So you'll go slow, faster and slow at your point and then faster again. So it is a really cool tool for doing that. "