Slowing a Sequence Render

[uwrazor]

In Premiere Pro 1.5: How can a completely edited sequence of stills & music - i have zero video footage in my sequence - of 4mins be re-rendered to output (DVD, .avi, etc...) at a variable speed eg. half the speed. so that all video keyframes stay in relation to the stretched (slowed) audio. Do i use the "Shuttle" control slider to do that?

From a newbie....Thanks...

[daamon]

Hi uwrazor,

Can you explain, in different words, what you're trying to achieve? I use Premiere Pro 1.5 and v6.0 before that so I may be able to help - but I'm not clear on what you want to do.

Also, as a Premiere user, this might be of use / interest:

www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial

[kschang]

If I read it right, he slowed the music down by X % and he wants to stretch the video timespace out by X % as well and was wonderng if there's a way to do that automatically rather than adjusting every single event manually.

[daamon]

Ah, I got it now.

OK, that's really easy in Premiere Pro, and it's done by make use of the "sequences" functionality. In Premiere 6.5 (and maybe 6.0, I don't know) this was achieved by creating a "virtual clip". "Sequences" is a more elegant way of doing it.

OK, here goes:

* Create your timeline of stills set to audio in the default "Sequence01". Don't make any stretching or shrinking adjustments here.

* Create a new sequence: File -> New -> Sequence. This will be called "Sequence02" by default, though all sequences can be easily renamed.

Both sequences appear in the "Project" window.

* Select the new sequence in the timeline window, so that the "Sequence02" tab is now highlighted.

* Simply drag the entry for "Sequence01" from the "Project" window to a track in the "Sequence02" timeline.

The "video" and "audio" will appear as (effectively) a single clip, but will reflect all the transitions and effects etc. of "Sequence01" - with the "clip" having this name.

* Because you now have (effectively) a single clip on the timeline (in "Sequence02"), you can adjust its speed and duration as for any other single clip, and it'll do this for both the audio and video parts, unless you unlink them - then you can do them seperately.

You can also now add transitions and effects to the whole of "Sequence01".

This is demonstrated in this tutorial:

www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_ppro_matrixrain.htm

Note: The zip file is around 17Mb and runs for about 35 minutes, though what you need to know is covered by the segment between 5:30 (5 min, 30 secs) and 9:00 of the tutorial.

Enjoy...