If you need to make slow motion video in your project, Adobe Premiere Elements has an great tool called time stretch to make it easy. This article will show you step by step how to add slow motion to your video project with Premiere Elements.
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Step 1
Open an Adobe Premiere elements video project. You should already have video files populated in your project. Click on the “Timeline” tab at the far right of the “My Project” dialog box. See the photo for the location of the timeline tab.
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Step 2
Roll your mouse pointer to the top of the header of the video file you want to change to slow motion. Hold it there a few seconds and a small yellow box will appear near the pointer. This box will contain the file name of the clip, the timecode start position, the timecode end position and the duration of the clip. Write down the duration of the clip. It will be in the format such as 00;00;02;20. For this example it would be a 2.20 second clip. If you want to make the clip shorter for slow motion use the split clip button on the monitor dialog box.
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Step 3
In the timeline dialog box, grab the video clip next to the video you want to make slow motion by using your mouse. Place the arrow on the top of the video bar and left click your mouse (somewhere in the middle of the bar). The bars on top of the video and audio should now be dark. While holding in the left mouse button, slide the video clip to the right about the width of the video clip you want to change to slow motion.
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Step 4
Press control and the “R” button. A dialog box that says “Time Stretch” will appear. Next to speed select the 100% and type in a lower number to slow down the video. For example 50% will slow the video to half the speed. To avoid the dreaded slow record sound you can check the box labeled “Maintain Audio Pitch”. This will magically make the tone sound a lot better.
Select the header of the video file your are applying slow motion. Grab the right side of the block until you see a red arrow. Left click and pull the bar to the right by holding down the left mouse button until you get the length correct. If you apply slow motion to 50% then you will roughly need to double the length of the video file. You will have the duration from step 2. -
Step 5
If you need to video files to sync, click the gap between the two files and press delete to join them back together. If the files still are not in sync, then grab the edge or press page up or page down to get to the edge of the video file. Left click and move the edge left or right to get the two files timed right. You can use the split screen to help.
Using these easy steps you will be on your way to making slow motion video using Adobe Premiere Elements.