Change speed on a clip without pushing everything back??

[Andy Mees]

how will you ever figure this out if you can’t figure out how to use the Search function ?

on a less grumpy note … select the clip in the timeline and press Shift-A, Shift I, Cmd-Option-F, Cmd J, enter the new speed, then press F10

kind of alot of shortcuts there, but what you are doing is:
first marking the you will be replacing, then going to the in-point of that clip, then opening up that clip’s original media in the viewer, adjusting the speed, and finally replacing the clip in timeline with the new speed adjusted version

[Kevin Monahan]

Or you could avoid placing in and out marks and just use Replace Edit to get the speed adjusted clip back into the timeline. Save a coupla keystrokes. 😉

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[David Bogie]

Replace Edit requires understanding AutoSelect.
Can’t be done.

(Equally grumpy today.)

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Duncan Craig]

Mark,

There are the shorcut shown above sure, but I still copy and paste to the end of the timeline, adjust the speed and drop it back up the timeline, it’s better for me as it’s more tactile to grab and etc.

[Dave Jenkins]

I use a sequence called “work” and I copy my clips I want to speed change into that sequence and leave them there. So if the speed change isn’t quite right you can go back and forth until you have the speed you want.

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[Kevin Monahan]

[bogiesan] “Replace Edit requires understanding AutoSelect.
Can’t be done.”
That’s too funny.
But seriously. If you wanna edit with the big boys, ya gots ta rock with the Replace Edit. It’s often the best way to synch an audio cue with a specific frame of video and other tricks, like the speed trick in the viewer.

The other methods of adjusting speed are valid, but I usually go for the fastest and most available to keyboard shortcuts.

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