How to speed up, slow down, ramp and freeze clips in Premiere Pro

What does this guide cover, and what could we not verify?

This guide covers the numbers behind a speed change, speed ramps, keeping a voice at its normal pitch, and freeze frames. It also covers mouzeclick's tools where they help. It does not quote Adobe's menu paths or shortcuts. When we checked on 3 November 2026, the text of Adobe's help articles on speed, ramps and freeze frames did not load, and we don't fill gaps from memory.

Two plain statements before the steps. First, we make mouzeclick, so read the mouzeclick parts as ours. Second, Adobe now calls the app Adobe Premiere, a name that covers its desktop and mobile apps. We keep "Premiere Pro" here because that is what most editors still type.

What you get on this page:

• tables that turn a speed percentage into a clip length, a frame rate into a slow-motion limit, and a speed into a pitch shift
• a plan for a speed ramp that works in any version, because it is about timing rather than buttons
• Fix pitch, and the Copy frame and Paste image freeze frame, in mouzeclick Studio on Windows and Mac
• the one-press Freeze frame in the Premiere Pro workspace, on Windows only
• how to put the commands you use most on mouse buttons

For Adobe's current steps, open Adobe's Premiere help pages for your version. We also could not read Adobe's published details on Generative Extend, so this page does not describe what it does or its limits.

How much should I speed up or slow down a clip?

Work the speed out from the length you need. The new length is the old length × 100 ÷ speed. A 10 s clip at 200% runs 5 s, and at 50% it runs 20 s. Above 100% the editor drops frames. Below 100% it has to show frames more than once, unless the footage has spare frames.

To fit a clip into an exact gap, turn the formula round: speed = old length ÷ target length × 100.

• A 12 s clip into an 8 s gap: 12 ÷ 8 × 100 = 150%.
• A 6 s clip stretched to fill 9 s: 6 ÷ 9 × 100 = 66.67%. That is below 100%, so frames repeat unless the footage was shot at a higher rate.

Round numbers give even patterns. At 200% the picture steps through every second frame, a steady rhythm. At 150% one frame in three is skipped, and the uneven step can show on fast pans. If a speed-up looks jittery, try 200% and trim the clip instead.

How do I get smooth slow motion in Premiere Pro?

Shoot at a higher frame rate than your timeline. Then slow the clip no further than the timeline's frame rate ÷ the source frame rate × 100. At that speed every frame on screen is a real frame from the camera, and nothing is repeated or made up.

Below that limit, the editor either shows the same frame several times or builds new frames between real ones. Slow movement survives this. Fast movement, such as hands, hair, water or a whip pan, tends to stutter or smear.

Plan it before you shoot:

1. Pick the timeline rate you deliver at, for example 24 or 30 fps.
2. Decide how slow the slowest shot needs to be. If it is 20% on a 24 fps timeline, you need 120 fps.
3. Shoot only the slow-motion shots at the high rate. Everything else can stay at the timeline rate.
4. In the edit, drop the high-rate clip to exactly the limit from the table first, and judge it there. Go slower only if the shot can take it.

How do I speed ramp in Premiere Pro?

A speed ramp is one clip that changes speed partway through. Common shapes are normal to fast and back to normal, or a drop into slow motion on an impact. Plan the ramp in numbers first, then build it in Premiere. We don't quote Adobe's steps for ramps, because we could not read them when we checked.

1. Pick the moment. A ramp works when the change lands on something: a beat, a footstep, a cut in the music, a hit. Put a marker there. If you cut to music, mouzebeat finds the beat and adds markers on every beat, every 2, every bar or only the hits. See beat markers in Premiere Pro.
2. Choose the two speeds. 100% → 400% → 100% is a classic travel ramp. 100% → 40% is a slow-motion hit on 60 fps footage in a 24 fps timeline. Keep the slow part at or above the limit in the slow-motion table.
3. Choose how long the change takes. Count in frames. At 24 fps, 6 frames (0.25 s) feels like a snap, and 12 frames (0.5 s) feels like a glide. Short ramps hide the speed change, and long ramps show it off.
4. Land the change on the marker. The new speed should arrive on the beat or the impact, not start there. That puts the visible change before the moment, and the moment itself plays at the new speed.
5. Check the length. The fast section eats time and the slow section adds it, so the clip's total length changes. Check what sits after it in the sequence.
6. Deal with the sound. A voice that speeds up and slows down inside one clip rarely sounds usable. Mute the clip's own audio and let the music or a whoosh carry the ramp. For steady speed-ups of dialogue, use Fix pitch (below).

mouzeclick includes mouzetime, listed in the plan as "slow motion, speed ramps and frame-rate changes, in beta". It is in beta, and that line is all we publish about it.

How do I change speed without changing the pitch?

Bring the voice back to its normal pitch after the speed change. In mouzeclick Studio, select the sped-up clip and press Fix pitch in the Timeline tab. If your faster voice sounds higher, its audio was played faster with no pitch correction, and Fix pitch brings it back to normal.

How far the pitch moves depends on the speed. When sound simply plays faster, the shift is 12 × log2(speed ÷ 100) semitones:

Step by step with mouzeclick:

1. Install the mouzeclick app and paste your key. The free trial is 3 days and needs no card.
2. In the app's Tool wheel page, press Install Premiere bridge, then restart Premiere Pro.
3. Open mouzeclick Studio from Window › Extensions.
4. Speed up the clip as usual, then select it in the timeline.
5. Open Studio's Timeline tab and press Fix pitch.
6. Play it back. Keep mouzeclick running while you work.

Fix pitch is in the Studio Timeline tab, which runs on Windows and Mac. The Studio feature list shows everything else in that tab. Fix pitch is also on the mouzeclick Toolbar. You can pin Toolbar tools to keys 1–9, or press / to find one by name. The Toolbar's full tool list is in the feature library. On a Mac, follow the four-step Mac install first.

How do I make a freeze frame in Premiere Pro?

Hold one frame as a still. With mouzeclick, press Copy frame and then Paste image in Studio's Timeline tab, then trim the still to the length you want. On Windows, the Premiere Pro workspace also has a one-press Freeze frame in its Toolbox.

The Studio route (Windows and Mac)

1. Move to the frame you want to hold. Step a frame at a time until a face or an action reads clearly, because a still shows every blur.
2. In mouzeclick Studio, open the Timeline tab and press Copy frame.
3. Press Paste image. The frame comes into the sequence as a still.
4. Cut the clip where the freeze should sit, and put the still between the two halves. The cut and ripple delete shortcuts make this quick.
5. Trim the still to the hold you want. At 24 fps, 36 frames is 1.5 s, and 48 frames is 2 s.
6. Add a name title, a zoom or a colour change on top if the freeze introduces someone.

The workspace route (Windows only)

1. Open Window › Extensions › mouzeclick workspace. It opens on Toolbox.
2. Press Freeze frame in Toolbox.

The same Toolbox holds Stair up and down, J-cut and L-cut, and its own Paste image. The Premiere Pro workspace page maps every section. The workspaces are part of mouzeclick on Windows. The Mac app does not include them, so on a Mac use the Studio route.

Adobe's own freeze-frame article did not load when we checked, so we don't quote its steps or name its menu here.

Why does my speed change look or sound wrong?

Most problems come down to one of these causes: too few frames, a shifted pitch, a new gap, a missing panel, or a tool that isn't on your platform. Check them in this order.

• Slow motion stutters. The clip is slower than its frames allow. Check the slow-motion table. 30 fps footage at 50% on a 30 fps timeline shows every frame twice, and fast movement will judder. Go back to 100%, or reshoot at a higher rate.
• A speed-up looks jittery. Odd percentages such as 150% skip frames unevenly. Try 200% and trim instead.
• The voice sounds high or low. The audio was played faster or slower with no pitch correction. Select the clip and press Fix pitch in Studio's Timeline tab.
• There's a gap after the clip. A faster clip is shorter. Press Close all gaps in Studio's Timeline tab.
• The freeze frame doesn't fill the picture. Press Fill the frame in the same Timeline tab.
• Studio isn't under Window › Extensions. Install the bridge from the app's Tool wheel page, restart Premiere, and keep mouzeclick running. The fixes for greyed-out Premiere extensions and the general guide on installing Premiere Pro extensions cover the rest.
• There's no Freeze frame button on a Mac. It lives in the Premiere Pro workspace, which is Windows only. Use Copy frame and Paste image in Studio instead.
• Mouse shortcuts stop working. mouzeclick needs an internet connection while it runs. If the connection drops, the shortcuts pause and the mouse acts normally until it returns. On Windows, apps running as administrator ignore apps that are not elevated. Pick Restart as administrator in the tray menu.

How do I put speed and freeze-frame commands on my mouse?

Record the shortcut your Premiere uses for the command, then give it a mouse button, a gesture or a wheel slot in the mouzeclick app's Premiere profile. Buttons work per app, so the same button can do something else in Chrome. The mouse app runs on Windows and Mac.

Look up or set the key first. The Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts list and the guide to changing Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts cover that side. Then:

1. Open the mouzeclick app and pick the Premiere Pro profile. The editors come with ready-made profiles.
2. Choose a button. On first run you pressed each button once, so the page shows the buttons your mouse really has: left, right, middle, Mouse 4 and Mouse 5, plus scroll and tilt.
3. Pick a slot. Each button has eleven: tap, hold, move in four directions, a chord with another button, or hold and scroll.
4. Record your shortcut there, or pick one of the 309 built-in shortcuts (on Windows) in the picker. A macro can chain keys, clicks, waits and typed text. If your speed shortcut opens a box where you type the number, a macro can press it, wait, type 200 and press Enter.

A layout that suits speed and freeze work:

• Mouse 4 tap: your speed shortcut. Mouse 4 hold and move up: a macro that types 200.
• Mouse 5 tap: the cut shortcut, so you can split where a freeze or ramp starts.
• Gestures: "Add editing gestures" fills the empty directions. Up plays, down splits, left undoes and right moves one frame forward. Moving one frame at a time is how you find the right frame to freeze.
• Options wheel (F8): 48 favourites per app on rings of 12, 16 and 20, for the macros you use less often.
• Tool wheel (F10 or a held right button): the Premiere Pro Tool wheel holds 112 tools in 12 segments, including punch in, slow zoom and Fill frame.

The full setup, with button-by-button examples, is in Premiere Pro mouse shortcuts on any mouse.

Where mouzeclick fits (we make it)

mouzeclick doesn't replace Premiere's own speed controls. It adds the steps around them: a pitch fix, a quick freeze frame, closing the gap, and putting it all on your mouse. Here is what runs where.

It's one plan with everything included: $25 a month, $249 a year, or $499 once for one of the first 100 lifetime keys. Details are at mouzeclick pricing. The trial is 3 days with no card, and every Premiere Pro and After Effects tool works fully during it. A key runs on one computer at a time, Windows or Mac.

On Windows you also get the two workspaces. On a Mac you get Studio's Silence, Timeline and Guides tabs, the Toolbar, Search effects and all the Premiere Pro and After Effects extensions. Captions, Retakes and the workspaces are Windows only.

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Checked on 2026-11-03. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.

1. Adobe Premiere product page: name change, single-app price (checked 3 Nov 2026), no perpetual licence
2. Adobe Creative Cloud plans: Adobe Premiere US$22.99/mo, annual, billed monthly (checked 3 Nov 2026)
3. Adobe Premiere free trial: macOS and Windows, 14-day cancellation refund
4. Adobe Premiere help: what's new (article text could not be read on 3 Nov 2026)

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