Making speed changes without shifting all following clips

[Tom Wolsky]

Matching framing to the original media with Cmd-Opt-F is probably the simplest, but there is no simple switch for this.

All the best,

Tom

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[Walter Biscardi]

None that I’m aware of.

In my opinion this is the single worst function of FCP. There is no reason that changing the speed of a clip should move all the clips down the timeline.

I don’t think I’ve worked on any other NLE that does the speed change this way.

I always create a new Sequence and make my speed changes in that sequence.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Jeremy Garchow]

Tom’s got it right.

Here’s a tutorial to help in case you are visually and aurally inclined:

https://digitalheaven.dreamhosters.com/hot_tips_01.mp4

Jeremy

[Paul Escandon]

I third Tom’s advice – using the way he mentioned is the best and fastest way to do speed changes in the middle of an already busy timeline.

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[Christopher Wright]

What Walter said..

This is one of the many features I loved in Discreet edit*, that had rock solid, smooth motion interpolation versus the very touchy beahviour FCP has when resizing, having motion within stills, and speed changes etc. There is no reason to keep this behaviour the default in FCP.

[Tom Wolsky]

I’m curious what other NLE’s do. If you slmo a clip, what do they do, truncate the clip to its current duration? If you speed up a clip, extend the clip’s marked I/O to fill the sapce? What if there isn’t enough media? Leaves a hole in the timeline?

All the best,

Tom

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Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Ben Scott]

heres a how to on match frame
https://cowcast.creativecow.net/final_cut_pro/episodes/podcast11_match_frame_auto_select.m4v
(mine goes in more detail about how to match from which track and how to bring back in with synch as far as I remember)

just do the match source footage not a match frame although you could get some problems with things like merged clips this way

once you have clip in viewer just change the speed of the clip using modify menu before overwriting back in

alternative is make subclips and then modify the speed of them as much as you like (as long as they dont get used elsewhere in the timeline)

[Bob Flood]

hamster

it seems that everyone has a workaround for this glaring idiosyncrasie (maybe it was a feature suggested by marketing?)

my workaround is to use fit to fill. it doesnt change the speed of the original clip, which happens when you match to source, and it doesnt ripple all your clips.

and you can do it by eye or by the numbers.

hope this helps

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Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Andy Mees]

indeed. i’ve never understood why there isn’t a simple checkbox option in the speed dialog to “preserve duration”

… when i make a “constant” speed change I’m not permitted to lock the duration, and when I make “variable” speed change I’m forced to lock the duration. there’s certainly no technical reason why I couldn’t have my cake and eat it, but Apple seem to want to force me to diet

[Hamish Lyons]

thank you everyone for your responses, obviously an FCP issue that we all have our own methods at dealing with… for me modifying the clip in the viewer works, even modifying the source clip in the viewer so one does not accidentally leave the browser clip with its speed changed…
what would be simpler maybe, a checkbox on the speed properties box that asks to adjust the following clips, or to overwrite… horses for courses i guess!
cheers hamster