• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Changing the Speed Of a Clip does not Change its Duration Why?

  Posted by Vaishakh Babu on October 6, 2010 at 5:40 am

  Hi Folks

  Lately i have been having some weird stuffs happening in final cut…

  thing is i select a clip and change its speed to 50% (modify -> change speed cmd+h) but the duration still remains the same, shouldn’t it double

  why is this happening

  Dayna Casey replied 15 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  October 7, 2010 at 12:43 pm

  I’m sure you mean when you type cmd+j to change the speed.

  In the window that opens, there is an option to ripple the sequence. If it’s on, and you change the speed to say 50%, the length of the new clip will be twice as long as it was before. If it’s off, you’ll see the behavior you’re reporting. So it’s a setting, and actually a feature, because you can have the behavior be either way.

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  Vaishakh Babu

  October 9, 2010 at 6:11 am

  thanks,

  it worked
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  Dayna Casey

  October 23, 2010 at 11:02 pm

  Hi,

  I’m having this same problem, but the ripple sequence is unclickable and
  also the duration part. Does anyone know why?
  I’m working in a sequence that has two different kinds of film – one NTSC
  and one HD and the sequence settings are set to the HD. Does this make
  a difference?

  Thanks

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