Video Editing : Manipulating Time
Tempus Fugit.
As video producers, it's our job to make time fly. Or crawl. Or hop, skip, or jump. Given the tools any modern editing software has today, we can pretty much make time do our bidding. Yes, every time we sit down to edit, we are time pilots. We can slice and dice time. We can take a scene that originally occurred in "real time" and slow it down to make it easier for our audience to examine the passing scene in detail. Or we can choose to accelerate time, compressing long seconds, minutes, or even hours into a shorthand stream of imagery. So given this power, how do you decide whether or not it's a good idea to mess with nature's "real time" standard? Tough ques…
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