Newbie Question – Motion Effects

[Steve Eisen]

It’s not a Bug, it’s simple math. You slow something down, it’s gonna be longer. You speed it up, it’s gonna be shorter.

There are a couple plug-ins, Twixtor (ReVision FX) and (Boris FX) Optical Flow that can do what you want.

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[Les Kaye]

Um, anyone else?

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Its not a bug. Its how FCP works.

You need to adjust the speed of your clips BEFORE they are edited to the timeline.
But you can solve this problem afterwards by adjusting the matching “original” clip(s), then editing these newly adjusted clips to replace the one(s) on your timeline.

On the timeline: Click on the first frame of the clip you want to Slo-Mo or Fast-Mo.
But do NOT double-click IT into the viewer, but hit the F key so a “match-frame” of the original clip appears in the Viewer.

Then, adjust the speed of the clip in the Viewer (Cmd-J) to any percent you want.

Next, on the timeline, use REPLACE to change-out the regular-speed clip with the newly speed-adjusted version.

Your other clips will all stay in place.

[Les Kaye]

Thanks much, just what I needed to know.