Assistant Editors
Eliminate take-by-take retime setup on every slow-motion clip. Your dailies prep drops from hours to minutes.
Automated retime effect handling
Offspeed Footage Handled Automatically
Slow-motion and mixed-frame-rate workflows have one universal truth: retime work is incredibly easy to get wrong and astronomically time-consuming. Developing Tank automates your retime-oriented tasks, ensuring perfect accuracy every time.
ClipSrc FPSResult
A017C003_240fps240.0024fps retime
B004A001_60fps60.0024fps retime
C011B002_48fps48.0024fps retime
Retime effects and subclips are generated from metadata — consistent and repeatable.
Manual Retime vs. Automated
Without Developing Tank
- Setting timewarp/speed effects by hand for 50+ clips
- Hand-calculating frame-rate conversions (error-prone)
- Re-doing setup when metadata changes
- Verifying math on every single clip
- Manual subclip organization for editorial
Result: 2–3 hours per dailies cycle, zero guarantee of accuracy.
With Developing Tank
- Upload your Avid bin or AAF once
- Retime effects applied automatically based on metadata
- Subclips generated and organized instantly
- Math is deterministic and verifiable
- Frame rates locked to project specs
Result: 10 minutes. Perfect accuracy. Every time.
Inputs
AVB or AAF files with offspeed metadata
Process
Detect offspeed clips, apply retime effects, create subclips
Outputs
Retimed subclips + motion effects + organized bins
Picture Editors
Start cutting with ready-to-edit clips. No waiting weeks for retime setup on shots from yesterday's dailies.
Online Editors
Receive sequences with retimed subclips already separated. No hunting through bins for manually-created retime clips.
The automated process
Three Steps to Perfect Retimes
Upload your dailies in Avid bin or AAF format. Developing Tank automatically detects slow-motion materials, applies retime effects consistent with your project frame rate, and generates subclips ready for editorial. What once took hours of manual setup now takes minutes—with verifiable accuracy every time.
- Detects offspeed clips from source metadata automatically
- Applies correct Timewarp/Speed effects based on frame rates
- Generates subclips matching your project specifications
- Creates sequences of retimed subclips for easy syncing
- Supports 24fps → 480fps, fast-motion, variable-speed ramps
Faster dailiesRetime setup drops from hours to minutes.
Consistent mathConversions are deterministic and verifiable.
Cleaner handoffsSubclips arrive organized for editorial and online.
Accurate conversions
Frame-rate math that's deterministic and verifiable, not hand-calculated and error-prone.
Organized subclips
Retime subclips are automatically separated and categorized for editorial workflow.
Multiple Cameras
Support multiple cameras by stacking all cameras in one sequence along with any external audio to be synced and grouped.
Retime workflow
Make retime setup part of your repeatable pipeline
Offspeed clips show up every day — high speed, mixed rates, quick pickups, and variable camera settings. The hard part is not the effect itself; it’s the consistency.
Developing Tank applies the same logic every time: detect offspeed from source metadata, apply your project’s target frame rate, then generate ready-to-cut subclips with a verifiable conversion path.
Frequently Asked Questions
What frame rates do you support?
We support any conversion from 24fps to over 480fps, including slow-motion (24→60fps), high-speed (120→24fps), and custom frame rates supported.
Will it sync my audio?
While we manually can't sync the audio, we will match your external audio and motion effects and place them in a sequence to by synced.
Will this make subclips?
Yes. Yes it will take the motion effect clip and turn it into subclips
Does this replace manual timewarp entry in Avid?
Yes. Instead of hand-calculating and entering timewarps for each clip, upload your dailies and we apply the effects automatically based on metadata.
Can I use this for just a few clips, or do I need batch?
Both. The free tool handles up to 5 AAF files at a time. Members can batch-process 100+ clips by uploading a signle Avid Bin or 50 clips by uploading them as AAF files.