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Slow Motion For Adobe Premiere Users:

Every one uses slow motion and some editing programs do it better than others.  But in a lot of cases you will end up with stutters, jumps and jerky motion, not at all what you had in mind.  Here’s a little trick to get really good slow motion out of Adobe Premiere.

1. Place a short piece of video on the time line and click on that piece.
2. Click on Clip from the tool bar, then Speed and change to 50%.
3. Next from the tool bar click on Window, then Workspace and Effects.
4. From the Effects small window, click on Video and then Adjust.
5. Locate Brightness and Contrast and add it to your video clip on the time line.

*leave the Brightness and Contrast settings to defaults, you don’t need to adjust.

You will need to render that short clip.  Play it back and you should be happy with the results.  Do a quick test by putting that same clip again next to the one you just rendered and just change the speed don’t add the Brightness and Contrast effect.  Well what do you think?

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