Time travel tricks and techniques
Shoot and edit footage to manipulate time like in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet
Mimic the Tenet movie with some simple shooting and editing techniques
Final Cut Pro X’s video retiming tools provide a range of ways to enhance your projects. You can speed up time to experience the ebb and flow of people or natural phenomenon, such as waves and clouds, creating eye-catching ‘passing of time’ sequences for your dramas. By slowing time, you can analyse the movement of a subject, such as a bird in flight, providing suitable shots for natural history documentaries. In Christopher Nolan’s time-twisting movie Tenet, characters walk forwards in time while the world around them flows in reverse. This simultaneous forwards/backwards effect can be achieved without spending a huge budget thanks to Final Cut Pro’s retiming tools. We’ll show you how to shoot and edit clips to creatively play with time.