• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Variable speed how-to?

  Posted by Albo on April 17, 2005 at 3:51 pm

  Hi,
  I don’t know if I’m an idiot or what (you don’t have to answer that), but I can’t figure out how to do a very simple thing. As an example; say I have a 3 minute clip. I’d like the middle minute of that clip (starting at the 1 minute mark) to slow down gradually from 100% speed at 1 minute, to 20% at the 1.5 minute mark, and then smoothly back up to 100% at the 2 minute mark.
  I don’t want to do what the Time Remap tool seems to do, which is keeping the clip the same length and adjusting the speed of the rest of the clip to compensate for the speed change I want to make. I’ve read Apples help files on Time Remap and they just make my head hurt.
  Help!
  Albo

  Albo replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Pete

  April 18, 2005 at 3:30 am

  In ReMap change fron Constant to Variable, use KeyFrames/Graph to control.
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  Albo

  April 18, 2005 at 12:51 pm

  Thanks Pete,
  I pretty much got that already. As I said in the original post, I want to do what a constant speed change does (change the length of the clip to match the change in speed) but I want to do it at variable speeds. The time remap, when I use it, keeps the clip at it’s original length and, if I slow down a section, speeds up the rest of the clip to compensate and keep the clip the same length. I don’t want anything speeded up; i just want to slow down a portion of the clip at a variable speed (and thereby change it’s length).
  Make sense?
  Albo

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