Now that you’ve done this, if you right click on the clip and head back to the Speed/Duration option, you’ll now see that the timing of the shot as been updated, so you’ll know exactly how much (or how little for that matter), your shot as been slowed down. Then, grab the edit you want to stretch out to fill the space between two edits and, voila, you’re done! Hit the keyboard shortcut of “S”, or navigate over and select the tool on the toolbar. That’s where the Rate Stretch Tool comes into play. Using the “default”, Right Click>Speed/Duration command, can be pretty cumbersome, again, trying to get a shot to fit in between two other shots.
One problem you’ll encounter, when working with speed adjustments, is that unless you’re working on a single shot basis, it’s pretty tricky to figure out exactly how much to adjust a clip, to get it to fit into a space between two clips. We left off at the end of the last article, getting ready to talk about the Rate Stretch Tool, so let’s take a look at how it works, exactly.
In our last lesson, in our look at learning HitFilm Pro, we talked about most of the tools in the toolbar, and how you’ll use them in your editing workflows in HitFilm Pro, and in this lesson, we’re going to keep the discussion of the toolbar going by talking about a few other tools including the Rate Stretch Tool, and the Export Tools.
