Temporal

The Temporal picker controls how time behaves in a video clip. You combine up to four parts — speed, freeze, direction and shutter — with options such as Slow Motion, Time-lapse, Bullet Time, Reverse / Rewind and Motion Blur. Nodaro adds tested wording for them to the prompt of every video node you connect it to. The picker never calls a model, so it costs no credits.

When to use it

• Slow down the peak of an action, such as a jump or a splash, with Slow Motion or Super Slow-mo.
• Show time passing over a city or a landscape with Time-lapse or Hyper-lapse.
• Freeze a music-video moment with Bullet Time or Frozen Subject.
• Tell a moment backward with Reverse / Rewind, or loop it with Loop / Boomerang.

How to use it

Settings

Each part is optional. The parts you turn on are joined into one description, and a part that is off adds nothing.

To see the exact words the picker will add, switch the node to the Prompt or Both display mode. The settings panel shows the same text under Will inject into prompt.

Video only

Temporal works only with video nodes. Still-image nodes, such as Generate Image, never receive its wording, and the Look input of Generate Image does not offer it.

Every temporal option

Filter by part or search by name. The words under each name are the term the picker adds in Compact mode.

Tips

• Slow down the peak. Slow Motion reads best on a clear action, such as a jump, a splash or a punch.
• Freeze on the beat. In a music video, use Bullet Time at the drop, and pair it with an orbit from Camera Motion.
• Add events to slow them down. Combine Slow Motion with Action FX, such as Airborne Glass Shatter or Large Explosion.
• Change a finished clip instead. To speed up or slow down a clip you already have, use Adjust Speed.