Change Video Speed

A long process becomes a satisfying timelapse at 4x; a fast moment deserves slow motion at half speed. This tool retimes your video anywhere from quarter speed to four times speed — and, importantly, it pitch-corrects the audio while doing it, so a sped-up voice stays a voice instead of turning into a chipmunk, and a slowed voice doesn't slur. The whole job runs in your browser with the FFmpeg engine; nothing is uploaded. Remember that slow motion can't invent frames: slowing a 30 fps clip stretches the frames it has, which is exactly the classic slow-mo look.

Choose a file to begin — nothing is uploaded, everything happens on your device.

How to use this tool

  1. Choose the video.
  2. Pick the new speed — 2x for timelapse feel, 0.5x for slow motion.
  3. Keep pitch correction on so voices sound human (it is, by default).
  4. Click Change speed and download the retimed video.

Worked example

Slowing a 3-second clip to half speed stretched it to exactly 6 seconds in our test — and with pitch correction the voice deepened naturally instead of turning into a slur.

Frequently asked questions

How does pitch correction work?

Naively speeding up audio raises its pitch; slowing it lowers the pitch. The atempo filter instead time-stretches the sound the way podcast apps do — tempo changes, pitch stays. For extreme factors the tool chains the filter (two 2× steps for 4×) because a single step only covers 0.5×–2×.

Will slow motion look smooth?

It will look like classic slow motion: the existing frames play for longer. A 30 fps video slowed to 0.25× effectively shows 7.5 frames per second — dreamy but steppy. For buttery slow-mo, shoot at 60 or 120 fps first, then slow that down.

Does changing speed change the file size?

Roughly in proportion to the new length: a 4× version is about a quarter of the frames, a 0.5× version about double. The tool re-encodes at a good quality setting, so sizes are predictable rather than explosive.

Can I speed up only part of a video?

Not in this tool — the whole clip gets one speed. Trim the part you want with the Video Trimmer first, retime it here, and the rest of the original stays untouched.

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