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⏱️ To adjust timing 🎬 To change speed
to retime

to retime

6.1
Make a recording play faster or slower to change its timing
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈtaɪm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : ajustar el tiempo
  • To enhance the music's impact, he would often retime the audio tracks during the mixing process.

Examples

  • The editor had to retime the scenes in the film to achieve a smoother flow.

  • When I'm listening to music, I retime it, or recompose it, or change the key of it in my head to change the feel of it, to get a different emotional or even physical effect.

    Academic text (2011)

  • And they attached Hemsworth to a cable pull that they retimed so he could look like he was knocked sideways.

    Blog text (30)

  • She decided to retime the video to make the action sequences more exciting.

How Fast

to speed up
161 2.5
to retime
  • Specialized
6.1
to slow down
687 1.4

Surface Forms

retime infinitive
retimed past
retimed past participle
retiming present participle
retimes third person singular

Morphology

retime = time (semi-transparent) = re + time

The general idea of adjusting timing is clear, but the specialized media-editing sense includes technical effects on duration or motion that are not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

Retime comes from re- ('again') plus time ('when something happens'). That's why to retime a clip or sound is to 'set its timing again' — for example slow down or speed up a video so the action fits the music.