Make a clip longer by holding the last frame?

[avpromedia]

I have a 3 second animated clip. How can I extend the clip to 5 seconds where all frames after 3 seconds is just duplicates of the last frame?

Right now I duplicate the clip, then on the 2nd clip I put a frame hold on the out point, resize the clip to 2 seconds, and then put these two clips one after another.

Is there a simpler way?

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

Yes, avpromedia, there is. Park the playhead on the last frame of the clip and then right-click (WIN) or Ctrl-click (macOS) and choose > Add Frame Hold. A one-frame freeze frame is edited in as the final frame, and you can extend that to the length you need. See if that works for you.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Alice239586330cpp]

Hello Kevin - I tried to use the method you described and also other methods indicated by other users, but the result is not what I need.

Here attached the images before and after making the freeze frame: at the end of the mp4 lenght, instead of having the freezed image, I find again the first frame of the same video.
I hope this problem can be solved.

[Ann Bens]

You need to move the right clip to make room in order to make the stretch.

[Alice239586330cpp]

I know that to lengthen the duration of the image in the time line I have to move the other parts to the right.
But the problem (as indicated in the screenshots) is that when I freeze frame, the image changes and no longer remains the same

[Ann Bens]

Does the footage have variable framerate?

[Alice239586330cpp]

No, same frame rate.

[Ann Bens]

No, same frame rate.

By @Alice239586330cpp

What does that mean?

[Alice239586330cpp]

Good morning Ann, the clip have one unique frame rate because, in the project i have only one video that i  cut and edit some parts of it; so the frame rate it's the same. 

[Ann Bens]

Dont think you understand my question.

Post screenshot of clip in MediaInfo in treeview on the forum.

[Alice239586330cpp]

Okok perfect. Thank you, have a good day.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

My fast way is to cut the last frame and stretch this single frame with stretch tool.

[R Neil Haugen]

Both Kevin and Ann have good answers ... because there is normally more than one way to do anything you can do in Premiere.

Neil

[avpromedia]

I second that. Both method works very wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

Thanks.

[Peru Bob]

A third way is to do a frame grab of the last frame and import that into the project and drag it out to the desired length.

[R Neil Haugen]

And yet another way to handle this little task ... !

Neil

[Steve Griffiths]

Hold Frame is a wonderful tool. Map it to a keyboard command (I use 'F2') to have it available at a keystroke.

[Richard23394131sqn1]

Frame hold does not seem to work with key frames. In other words, if I add a frame hold to a clip, it becomes impossible to have effect keyframes do anything such as animating mask opacity etc. Is that anyone else's experience? I have to do a frame export to make that work.

[Ann Bens]

An animated mask works just fine here on a hold frame.

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