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If someone fast-forwards a video, is it natural to use:

He put his video on fast-forward.

And if I want it to play normally,can I say(telling the other person who fast-forwarded it)

Hey! Put it back to normal?

Can the same be used for "slow-motion"?

Put the video on slow motion.

Put it back to normal!

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These are all adjective phrases, with a missing noun "mode" at the end. Fast-forward mode, normal mode, slow-motion mode.

People watch things at normal speed or at slow-motion speed, but nobody watches things at fast-forward speed. So we usually make that a verb ("fast foward it to the good part") rather than calling it a mode ("put it on fast forward until it gets to the good part").

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