Slow Motion, Speed Ramp, & Freeze Frame - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Tutorial

I’m going to show you how to get slow motion shots, speed up your footage, as well as how to create freeze frames.

I shot my video at 1080p 30fps, but at 120 frames per second because the slow motion will look better when you’re finished with it in post.

Double click on the clip so it’s in the source monitor

Select and in and out point

Drag the video only onto the sequence

This is the time remapping process. Let’s say we want to start at normal speed, slow down, and then go back to normal speed.

Time remapping is just another way of saying that you want to mess around with the speed of the clip. You can do this with keyframes.

Right click, show clip keyframes, time remapping, speed

At the top of the blue, that line represents 100% speed

Use the pen tool to set keyframes to change the speed

Add keyframes to before jumping and after landing

Click v for the selection tool

Lower the line, that means it slows down and so the clip also gets longer

If i raise the line the clip shortens because that part is going faster

You can see the % speed changes

Slow it down to 30%

We want it to be more smooth going into the slow motion, so we can make a speed ramp

To make the ramp, click on this point. It splits, then you click on one of the points and you get a toggle in the middle. Pull that back and forth and you can see the speed change becomes more gentle or smooth

Now when you play it back, the speed change is more gradual

You can make it as slow as you want by pulling these points apart, and it looks so cool.

Now lets to the end

Smooth that transition

Now it goes from 100% to 30%, and then back to normal speed

What if you wanted to be faster than 100% - pull the beginning up above the blue

When the line is above the blue is fast, below the blue is slow, and when the line is right on the blue, it is normal speed

This line is above 100, this line is below 100, and this part is right on 100% speed

What if you want to freeze frame right at the top of the jump?

The best way is to use the export frame button

If you don’t see it, then go over to the plus sign, button editor, and drag it down 

Now pick your frame that you want to freeze. 

Give it a name and make sure it’s being imported back into your project & in your project folder

You’ll see it imported into the project panel

Double click to send it to the source monitor and insert, lay it on top of the layer, cut and insert

Now the sequence goes from fast to slow to freeze to slow to regular speed.

You may have noticed that I did some different things with the freeze frame in the intro. I just made cuts to the beat of the music and then changed the size and angle.

Now let’s say you want to change an entire clip’s speed, not make it go from fast to slow or anything, there is another way to do that

We’ll drag this clip back onto the timeline and make the entire clip slow

Click r for the rate stretch tool

If you click the end of the clip, you can drag it out  and you’ll see that as you make the clip longer, the speed slows down - you can see the percent at the top of the clip

So now you can see that the entire clip is slow motion

If you move the end of the clip back in to the left, you’ll increase the speed

Another way to do this is to right click and click on speed/duration

Here you can type in the speed percent you want.

You can also reverse it if you want me to go backwards.

Because I shot in 120fps, I don’t need to worry about changing this drop down. But maybe you shot in 30fps. You have less information, so you could choose one of these - frame blending which blends the frames together, or optical flow which will predict and then generate frames in between your existing frames in order to create information that isn’t there. 

Just know that you’ll definitely have to render

So I hit ok and now you can see that my footage is going in reverse at 45% speed