ENDA Episode 188→ The time when ENDA tells a little secret called: Retiming (Part 2)
For starters, it analyses the motion in the footage to generate its own motion vectors, which already gives us a much cleaner result than the standard Retime node.
In a previous episode, we mentioned how the Retime node is quite limited when it comes to producing high-quality retiming. On the other hand, that’s not a problem for Kronos, the new node we’re talking about today.
Kronos is a retiming node that gives the compositor far more control over the quality of the result. For starters, it analyses the motion in the footage to generate its own motion vectors, which already gives us a much cleaner result than the standard Retime node.
In the video below, we can see that Kronos has more controls than the Retime node, and each one offers a different level of refinement.
Vector Detail → Adjusts the density of the vector field. The higher the value, the more refined the motion becomes… but the longer the processing time.
Strength → Controls how strongly the node matches pixels between frames. In other words, a higher value gives you better matching from one frame to the next and helps avoid artifacts — but again, it also increases processing time.
And I could keep going through each attribute, but the main point is this: Kronos allows us to set up a fast, workable preview, and once we’re happy with the general behaviour, we can increase the quality settings and render a final, high-quality retimed plate.
Still, the question remains:
How big is the difference between a plate retimed with Retime and one retimed with Kronos?
Well, that will be for a future episode.
The journey continues…
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