- Hey guys, my name is Matt Johnson.
And one of my most popular videos is called
frame rates explained where I walk you through
the video frame rates that I use to film weddings
and how I interpret my footage in Adobe Premiere Pro
to instantly make all my video clips the same frame rate.
This makes video editing super easy.
But one of the most common comments
that I've received on that video is can you still speed ramp
your interpreted footage?
A.k.a., if you have some footage
playing at normal speed, can you then
have it play in slow motion without cutting the clip?
This can be confusing because if speed ramping
is about making some of your footage slow motion
and some of it normal speed, how are you
supposed to do that if all of your footage
is the same frame rate?
Here's the good news.
You can still speed ramp interpreted footage.
And I'm about to show you how.
But first, if you haven't watched that
frame rates explained video, I would highly recommend
watching it because this tutorial sort of builds on that.
So, it'll be linked up in the corner
and down in the video description.
All right, let's jump into Adobe Premier.
Here's a project where I've already imported
some footage that is at 60 frames per second.
And as you can see it is playing back here
at normal speed, no slow-motion.
Now I'm gonna go over here to the project window,
right-click on this video clip, go to modify,
interpret footage, and then under frame rate
I'm going to select assume this frame rate.
And we're gonna change it from one frames per second
to 23.976 and then I'm gonna click okay.
And voila, as you can see this footage
is now playing back in slow motion
at 23.976 frames per second.
Now here comes the speed ramping part.
Select your footage, drag it down to your timeline,
make sure you select keep existing settings
whenever the clip mismatch warning pops up.
And then go down here to your clip
and you're gonna see this yellow FX icon,
right-click on that and go down to time remapping
and select speed.
Next I'm gonna go over here to this line
between V1 and V2 and I'm gonna click and drag it up
nice and big so you can see this track
is nice and large now.
Now look at your clip and figure out
where you want it to be in slow motion.
For me, I want the part where they're running up
to each other to be a normal speed
but once they get to about here
and he starts to spin her, that's whenever
I want the slow-motion to kick in.
So let's go to about right here.
And knowing that I want to start the slow-motion here
go down to this little horizontal line
to where your mouse changes and then if you're on PC
hold down control or if you're on Mac hold down command
and that's gonna change it to a plus icon
and then click once.
And as you can see there's now this little blue V icon
that has appeared.
Now if you've speed ramped your footage before
this is all gonna be very familiar.
You know, okay I just go over here
and I click this line and I drag it down
to 40% and suddenly things are in slow motion.
But wait a second, if we do that,
this isn't playing back in slow motion.
This is playing back with a very low frame rate
because this video clip is already in slow motion.
So what do you do?
I'm going to press control + Z or command + Z
if I was on a Mac to undo that
and then we're gonna go back to this previous line.
So this horizontal line before we have the vertical line
going through it and I'm gonna click to select this line
and I'm gonna drag it up, up, up, up
and you're gonna see this percentage
is starting to rise here and I'm gonna raise
the percentage up to 250%.
This speed, 250%, is gonna bring
your footage back to normal speed.
And you're gonna notice as soon as the playhead
hits this line everything goes to slow motion.
Now this is a very abrupt change to speed.
And one of the keywords of speed ramping
is the word ramp which makes you think of
a gradual change from fast to slow.
So let's do that now.
Move your mouse down here to this V icon again.
Click to select it so it turns blue,
and then click the left part of the V
and begin to drag it to the left.
About there is good.
And now you're gonna see we have this nice diagonal line.
Think of these two parts of the V
as the book ends for your speed ramping.
So this left part of the V is where
you start to tell Premier I want you to start changing
from normal speed to slow-motion.
This last part of the V is where you're telling Premier
I want you to fully be slow-motion.
Playback the clip here.
And as you can see it's a normal speed
and then as they come together slow motion is happening
and we are now fully slow motion.
Looks pretty good.
That's it, you can speed ramp interpreted footage
just as easily as you can uninterpreted footage.
And it only takes one extra small step to do it.
I hope this helps you out as you edit in Premier Pro.
Please leave me a comment below
and let me know if you have a different way of doing this.
I'm always learning new things about Premier.
You know what else would be a huge help to me?
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Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.