Premiere Pro · Cutting and the timeline
How to speed up a video in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Right-click the clip and choose Speed/Duration, or press Cmd+R on Mac or Ctrl+R on Windows. Set the speed above 100%, tick Maintain Audio Pitch and Ripple Edit, and click OK.
In Premiere Pro
01
Open Speed/Duration
Select the clip, right-click and choose Speed/Duration (Cmd+R or Ctrl+R).
02
Set the speed
Type a speed above 100%, such as 200% for twice as fast. Or set a new duration.
03
Keep the gap closed
Tick Ripple Edit, Shifting Trailing Clips so the clips after it move up.
04
Keep the voice natural
Tick Maintain Audio Pitch so speech doesn't rise in pitch, then click OK.
05
Or stretch to fit
Press R for the Rate Stretch tool and drag the clip's edge to fit a gap. Premiere changes its speed to match.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Ask Eddie to speed up a shot, from 0.25x to 8x.
Ask "Play this shot at 2x" or "Ramp into this shot and back out again." A retime mutes the shot's own audio, except between 80% and 125%, where the voice is kept. The speed change arrives in Premiere as a real speed change on the clip.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- What is the shortcut for speed in Premiere Pro?
- Cmd+R on Mac or Ctrl+R on Windows opens Speed/Duration.
- Why does my sped-up clip leave a gap?
- Ripple Edit wasn't ticked. Undo and try again with it on.