change the speed of a clip, on the time with out affecting its duration

[Enge]

Hi,
if you have a clip that’s two seconds long, and you apply a 200% speed event that clip will change in length by half, this is a real problem if it’s in the middle of an hour long programme and you’ve got various tracks unlocked, it starts to get messy.
Two things you can do, take out the clip you want to affect, move it to the end, the very end of your timeline, and apply the speed event, then edit it back into your sequence and pull everything else up.
Secondly, mark an in and out on your sequence, and then an in and out on your clip and perform a ‘fit to fill’ edit, this will, like it says, fit your source clip into the hole in your sequence.

hope that helps…

[Chris Poisson]

The easiest way to do this is make the speed change to the clip in the viewer, then edit it back in, using just the section that fits in your timeline.

[Ron James]

And make sure you match-frame into the viewer. Just hit F in the TL.

[Jamesr]

yes this worked the best for me thanks…

selected the clip in teh viewer, marked the in point on the clip, changed the speed. And then on the time line, marked in and out then dropped in the footage using teh red ‘overwrtite’ feature.

many thanks 🙂