From the course: Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 110

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Understand the Timewarp anchor frame

Understand the Timewarp anchor frame - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 110

Start my 1-month free trial

Understand the Timewarp anchor frame

“

- [Instructor] When setting up time warp effects to change the playback state of your clips over time you have the option to specify a particular frame that you want to be on screen at a particular time. And this is called the anchor frame. Just to illustrate this, I've got a new copy of this sequence I've called Time Warp Anchor Frame. And I'm going to pick a moment that's easy to spot. You see how our runner's hand here just reaches the railing. And I'm going to match frame without changing my in and out box, so I'm holding the Alt key. I'm going to my Fast menu and clicking Match Frame. So we can see these two frames match in our player and record monitors. Now I'm going to apply the Time Warp effect. And I'm going to go into the Effect Editor. And in the speed graph here I can do this in position as well, but I might as well do it here. I'm going to add a keyframe exactly where we are. And with that keyframe selected I'm going to click the Set Source Anchor Frame at Selected…

Contents