Slow down to a stop effect

[The Don]

Does anyone know if it's possible with video/audio footage to create the effect of slowing down to a stop such as might happen if a film projector loses power (or with a vinyl record on a turntable)?

[GrassValley_BH]

Copy the clip to a lower track, then Time Remap to "stretch" the tail-end to a longer time-period.

You'll have to fiddle a little (and put the original-speed cut clip above the Time Remap-ed version) to get the start of the slowdown to match up with the normal-speed section, but it's do-able.

Essentially you'll want to play increasing amounts of source (top) in larger time.

So your Time Remap keyframes might look like:

vvvvvvvvvv
*--------*-*-*-*-*-*
**--*---*----*-----*

You're time-compressing the beginning part of the clip (the v-ed part) to play within the first frame of the result. This is the part you want to cover with the normal-speed clip.

[The Don]

Thanks Brandon, I'll try it later today after work.
Regards,
Don

[pehrbau]

Good Old Speedcontrol did this. Still works on SD but probably not on HD.

[The Don]

Copy the clip to a lower track, then Time Remap to "stretch" the tail-end to a longer time-period.

You'll have to fiddle a little (and put the original-speed cut clip above the Time Remap-ed version) to get the start of the slowdown to match up with the normal-speed section, but it's do-able.

Essentially you'll want to play increasing amounts of source (top) in larger time.

So your Time Remap keyframes might look like:

vvvvvvvvvv
*--------*-*-*-*-*-*
**--*---*----*-----*

You're time-compressing the beginning part of the clip (the v-ed part) to play within the first frame of the result. This is the part you want to cover with the normal-speed clip.

Hey Brandon, it was quite easy to simply cut the clip where I wanted it to slow and simply apply your formula to it - fantastic mate!

[GrassValley_BH]

Great! I'd love to see what you've done if it's something that can be viewed by others.

[The Don]

G'day Brandon, I did a test from a very small section of a local TV show just to see if it works but the trouble is that I'm a 71 year old amateur who doesn't know how to put it up on this site. I'm happy to do it if you can help me.
Regards,
Don

[Fred Dwyer]

And I thought I was the only fully grown-up person around here.

[GrassValley_BH]

The easiest (though slowest) way is to upload an MPEG version to a site like YouTube or Vimeo. They'll have to recompress it for web viewing anyway. You may need to shorten the length as there's an upload filesize limit.