Gradual Slowdown

[Dave McElderry]

I have a section of video that I want to slow down gradually. That is, I don't want to just suddenly change from one speed to another, but rather I want to ramp from 100% to 0% speed over a period of several seconds. I don't know of a "speed" or "time stretch" effect that I could use to keyframe this. Is this possible to do without manually breaking it up into individual frames?

[Steve Grisetti]

Unfortunately, not in Premiere Elements, Dave.

I do demonstrate this trick, step-by-step, in my new "Cool Tricks" book.
http://muvipix.com/cooltricks.php

But the only method I've found to do it is to slice the sequence into several segments and apply an increasingly slower time stretch effect to each.

[Dave McElderry]

That's what I was afraid of Steve. It's okay. I don't do it often, and it's only a few seconds of video in this case. I can do it manually. This has occurred to me before and this time I just thought I'd pursue it. Thanks for the reply.

[Peru]

That was one factor in my upgrading to PPro- Time Remapping.

[RJ Johnston]

A while ago I used the Echo effect to slow down and speed up video. That was a bit tricky.
http://muvipix.com/cpg/displayimage.php?pos=-911

I also created a project template that accelerates video. You should be able to load it into a Premiere Elements 7 project. I suppose you could reverse it to slow down video. http://muvipix.com/cpg/displayimage.php?pos=-1982

[Dave McElderry]

Thanks RJ. I've got it saved. Will check it out .

[Dave McElderry]

RJ, I took a look at the project. It looks like the manual method that Steve and I mentioned - chopping the video into segments and applying gradually increasing or decreasing amounts of time stretch. Is there anything more here that I should know about?

[RJ Johnston]

Dave, yes, that is the method that you and Steve talked about.

[Dave McElderry]

Thanks RJ. Funny how a little need like this can pop up in the normal course of using the program. If most people were making a list of things that they wanted to have in PrEl, I'm sure this wouldn't be on it. But when I did want the function I went looking for it because I thought there was a fair chance that it was in there somewhere. The neat thing is that even though it takes a little manual work, it can still be done.