Can’t change speed of clip – Error Msg

[Tom Wolsky]

The red blocks in the timeline indicate clips that are out of sync with their audio. Sometimes it means something bad is happening to your sync, sometimes it just means the audio is not there.

The speed conflict error is caused because the clip is changing duration. Something that’s overlapping somewhere in the sequence is moving and bumping into another clip adjacent to it prevent the speed change. There are a number of ways around this. You can open a new copy of the clip with Cmd-Opt-F to match frame to it, change the speed of that, and then edit it into the timeline. You could also move the clip to some place in the timeline like the end of the sequence, change the speed there, and then move it back to wherever you want.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Naiche Lujan]

Thanks Tom!

Your workaround worked great. Glad to hear your explanation. I’m still learning how FCP “thinks” when you’re moving things around on the timeline.

I had moved some footage with audio to the timeline, but then decided to remove the audio all together. Also, I used the Roll or Ripple tool to move some video track w/o moving the audio track. So, somehow I confused FCP and myself in the process. It is interesting that earlier I had adjusted the speed on a couple clips and it just moved things forward from that point, like an insert.

Everything is now working great, but I still show some red notations on some of the video. But should be fine as I don’t have to modify that portion at all anymore.