From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Creating Timewarp effects - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

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Creating Timewarp effects

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- [Instructor] There are two ways you might choose to add a timewarp effect to a clip in a sequence. I'm going to remove the effect I just applied to the existing clip we have here. Let's just clip on this Remove Effect button and I'm going to look up in our Effect palette. If you start searching for the word Timewarp, then you're only going to see the one effect listed, which is in the Timewarp category in the Effect palette. If I clear this search and just scroll down a tiny bit, we do have a separate Timewarp category and within that category, we've got a number of different options, only one of which is the unmodified Timewarp effect. The other options on this list are also Timewarp effects but they're effect templates. They've already had some adjustments made to them. I'm going to take this Speed Bump option and drag it onto the clip in our sequence. Now, I'm going to go into the Effect workspace I think so we have one large monitor and just to be on the safe side, I'll restore the current to default and make sure we've got the right layout and click to go into this Effect Mode Viewer. What's actual happening when you click the Effect Mode button in the timeline window is we're not actually in the Effect Editor window now. We're in the Motion Effect Editor window. And this is where the controls are made available for motion effects and for Timewarp effects. The graph has already been expanded here. You can click to display or not display these graphs and I'll get into how to interpret these graphs in a moment but it's pretty clear what's going on by looking at the shape of the graph. If you recall, when we were looking at our keyframe controls for the frame flex effect, we have time moving from left to right and we have on the vertical axis some kind of setting. In this case, it's our speed. So if I drag through this, in fact, let's place through the effect. I'm going to mute our music because it's a little bit intense and we really just want to see what's happening with the visuals. Watch the way speed changes over time in this effect. It's pretty dramatic at the beginning, it slows down and then speeds up again towards the end. Of course, you can begin with the default Timewarp effect, which I'll do right here. Drag onto the clip and go into our Effect Mode and you can manually setup this adjustment over time. Just one thing worth noting is that the Timewarp effect is real time. You see I have this little green dot on the clip just next to the Timewarp effect icon. So you don't have to render to see the results and that's pretty important because adjusting your playback speed will often result in multiple iterations of the settings. You're going to try it out and play it and try it and play it again and eventually arrive at settings that you like. There are some situations where you do need to render the Timewarp effect though. One is if the play rate exceeds 1,400%. That's pretty fast. Another is if you use Bezier keyframes where you have those handles to control the shape of your keyframe. Just like this. But the most likely occasion that you're going to need to render a Timewarp effect is if you switch the type to fluid motion. And notice, having changed that, I have a blue dot in my timeline window. If I switch to fluid motion draft, I get a lower quality but still reasonable version of fluid motion that I can use to check the timing of the effect and so on but notice that it's still a blue dot. Rendering is required, it's just that much faster.

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