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Timewarp Editor
Opening and Using the Timewarp Editor
The Timewarp Editor is used like a clip Effect Editor (for general information see
“Classic Clip Effect Editors (Filters)” on page 510). To open the Timewarp Editor:
 Drag the Editor Picon from the Library tab of the Project window to the
appropriate clip.
Open the Editor by right-clicking the continuous colored line on the bottom
edge of the clip or from the clip’s FX Properties dialog box (page 286).
 The Timewarp Editor initially takes the place of the Sequence Editor. Click the triangular arrow at
the top between the timecode displays to open the bottom half of the editor.
If you use the Fit to Fill function, you do not have to open the Timewarp Editor (page 790).
TIP: apply the Timewarp effect first, then all other effects. That is, the Timewarp clip needs to be com-
pletely rendered before you apply additional effects.
Plus, a Timewarp discards a clip’s alpha plane so that already applied key effects, for example, would be
lost.
If a Timewarp effect, be it dynamic or linear, is applied to a clip to which already one or more effects have
been applied, the following happens:
The effect line at the clip’s top as well as the effect icon disappear from the clip. Instead the black and red
Timewarp line appear at the bottom of the clip.
This behavior is mandated by technical reasons. However, it does not mean that the previously applied
effect(s) has (have) been cleared or deleted from the clip. They become visible once again when the
Timewarp effect is taken from the clip.
Sometimes you will open the Timewarp Editor and discover that a Speed has already been selected (usu-
ally comprising an odd number with many decimal places). But this is only the case for clips whose clip-
in and clip-out are identical
to the mark-in and mark-out. The Timewarp Editor requires one extra clip
before
the mark-in and one clip after the mark-out, i.e. in the section to which the Timewarp effect is
being applied. If the clip-in/mark-in or clip-out/mark-out coincide in the original clip, the mark-in for
starting the effect is automatically shifted one frame (and the same happens to the mark-out), thus
changing the speed information.