Advanced Time Remapping BLOWS!

[Fabiana Cruz]

Maybe there’s a way?! You’re giving me hope here.. {:-)

[David Lawrence]

So are you saying there’s no equivalent of the “Fit to Fill” function? That’s one of my most commonly used techniques to fix lacking coverage.

[Simon Ubsdell]

I’m pretty sure there is no “fit to fill” – it’s certainly not mentioned in the manual and there’s nothing in the UI that looks like it and certainly not in the Retime menu.

The way I’d to a fit to fill in FCPX would be to edit in the new clip over the top of the old one (using Connect – Q), apply a 100% speed effect, then drag the handle at the tail of the clip till you’ve got it to fit the old one. Finally use Opt/Cmd/Down Arrow to overwrite the old clip on the primary storyline to keep things tidy.

I’m sure someone else can think of a quicker way …

Simon Ubsdell
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[Matthew Schickler]

You can range select any part of the clip and then do a SHIFT-N. This will create the appropriate number of speed segments. You can use this technique multiple times to split your clip into as many arbitrary speed segments as you want. Then drag the retiming handles to change the speed of each segment. No need to break the clip up. If you want to change where a segment ends, use the pulldown and select “Change Source End Frame” and then grab and pull the little clip icon that appears. Unfortunately, there’s no keyboard shortcut for changing the end frame. Also, each segment is not played at exactly the speed shown. Rather, it is ramped (using a fixed curve) toward the speed of the next segment. The speed ramp options are just a quick and dirty four segment template. I wouldn’t use them unless you actually had to ramp to/from 0%. All that said, I miss the curve where you could create any arbitrary mapping of frames to time.