Change video speed

Shorten a lecture at 2× or slow a tutorial to 0.5×. Audio follows with “Keep pitch” so voices stay natural.

Settings

How to use

  1. 1

    Add videos

    Drop the videos whose speed you want to change.

  2. 2

    Choose the speed

    From 0.25× to 4×. With “Keep pitch” on, voices keep their natural pitch. Remove the audio if you do not need it.

  3. 3

    Run and save

    The video is re-encoded, so processing time scales with its length.

What happens when speed changes

Video frames are retimed and re-encoded; any frames beyond 60 fps are dropped, so even 4× stays smooth. Audio is time-stretched with WSOLA, preserving the pitch.

Because the video is re-encoded, processing time scales with its length. For long lectures, “Extract audio from video” followed by “Change audio speed” is often faster.

Frequently asked questions

What happens to the audio?

With “Keep pitch” on, voices speed up at their natural pitch. Turn it off to change the pitch too, or remove the audio for a silent video.

Is quality lost?

The video is re-encoded, so it changes slightly according to the Quality setting. At “High” or above the difference is negligible.

How long does it take?

With a hardware encoder, a fraction of the video’s length.

Slow motion looks choppy

Frames are held longer rather than interpolated, so at 0.25× each frame repeats four times. Frame interpolation is not supported.

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What is sent

The tool you used and the settings you chose (output format, quality, etc.), your device specs (GPU, memory, core count), the input format with a rough size, how many files succeeded or failed and how long it took, and the error type and details when something fails.

What is never sent

The files themselves, file names, text, subtitles or prompts you add to a video, and IP addresses. The data goes only to this site's own server, never to a third-party service.

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