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Re-Timing Not As Expected
I’m not a beginner. I’ve got FCPX on both my desktop and my laptop and the re-timing difficulty is the same on both. I bought Steve Martin’s tutorials and I reviewed re-timing again to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. I tried this both before and after applying the Lion update that came out this morning. Also, my laptop is ‘clean’, meaning that I zeroed the drive, installed Lion, FCPX, Motion 5 and the new compressor on it. Nothing else. It’s also the latest model 17″ MBP Thunderbolt with 8GB of RAM. In short, it’s not the equipment. It must be a short between the headphones.
Here’s what’s happening; I set a range, CMD-R, go to the retiming panel and choose, say, 8x. ALL of the clip speeds up, not just the range. However, the re-timing bar over the range shows 800% and the bars on either side show green (100%). But the areas covered by the green bar are NOT at 100%. They also play at 800%. I can click on the green bar and pick ‘Normal’ and they’ll pop out to be normal with the green bar unchanged but now accurate when it reads 100%.
What am I missing?
Don Smith
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[Don Smith] “What am I missing?
“Software with no bugs. Reselect the area you want to remain 100 per cent and under the retiming menu select normal again. Only workaround I’ve found.
Best,
Geoff -
I appreciate your reply, but I have to ask why does FCPX re-timing work as expected in Steve Martin’s training video?
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I think it depends how much you change the speed. If you use a low amount it can behave properly. But when you crank it up it flips out.
Best,
Geoff -
While we’re on the topic of re-timing, is there any way to re-time a clip already in a storyline without rippling it? There was a check box in 7, but I can’t find anything similar in X.
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Highlight the clip. Hold CMD and OPTION and tap the up arrow to put the clip up on the next level by itself and is at the same time replace by a gap clip so that the primary storyline is not changed. Then apply retiming to the clip which is free to expand without rippling the timeline.
Don Smith
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Thanks, but I should have been more specific in my question.
I wanted to know if you can re-time without rippling without having to pull the clip out of the storyline.
In 7, I’d right click on the clip, select change speed, and un-check the “ripple sequence” button.
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