change speed

Len Jackson
March 31, 2009 at 4:17 pm

You can speed the clip up in the middle of a timeline, but you cannot slow it down. It’s a known issue, and a pain. One workaround is to drag the clip up a track, make your adjustment, and take it back down.

The error message pops up because FC cannot lengthen the clip if there is another right behind it in the timeline.
Jenn Kisabeth
March 31, 2009 at 4:31 pm

You can also use command-option-f to open a copy of the clip with a match frame and change the speed of that clip then just use replace.
Mark Suszko
March 31, 2009 at 5:53 pm

I think most folks just go for one of the many re-timing or speed modifyign plug-ins, seems like most everybody sells one of varying quality. I have probably six different speed changing plugs among my various resources in the system, from stand-alone helpers to the FCP timeline to plugs inside Motion, etc.
Andrei Bocharnikov
March 31, 2009 at 6:19 pm

thank you guys all for your input and especially Jenn. I like the way he do it. Much faster and no need to open other sequence or move clip up and down.

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