Speed changes requires me to move clip out of sequence ove

[Andy Mees]

Cmd-Opt-F to load a copy of the source clip into the Viewer
then Cmd-J to open the speed dialog where you can type in whatever speed you want it to be
finally F11 to replace the timeline instance with the speed adjusted copy

It’s a quick, simple and effective workaround albeit not the answer you wanted

That said, I agree wholeheartedly … logic be damned – the lack of ability to simply tick an option in the Speed dialog to “Preserve timeline duration” is very frustrating. Similarly, there should be an option to not preserve duration when handling variable speed adjustments.

I’d urge you to pop over to the FCP Feedback page and post a polite request for these options and any others you’d like to see implemented.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[David Roth Weiss] ”
Discreet Edit* had this whole thing figured out more than eight years ago, and it didn’t overwrite or ripple unless you wanted it to.

Plus, you could pick the specific section that you wanted to see after the speed change, between in and out points, or after setting just and in or an out.”

Clearly why Autodesk (nee Discreet) had to kill it off! It was too good, and wasn’t causing enough billable time.

Unlike FCP, where you can indulge your clients with endless random variations, and then have to wait for each iteration to render- a double hit in billable hours!

Arnie
Finally out of post! Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog

[Bret Williams]

Well I think it’s pretty obvious now that it depends on the situation and what part of the production you’re in. If you’re just rough cutting, extending the clip and rippling the timeline may be fine because it’s the actual content of the clip you find important.

However if you’re cutting a timed piece or cutting to an audio track, then obviously it’s the length of the clip that trumps the content.

Many (self included) have suggested a simple dialog or user preference to determine what happens when you alter the speed in the timeline. Seems like the way to go.

[Bob Flood]

Hi

i came back here to answer after reading all the responses that turned into “my way vs your way”

I have another 2 ways of dealing with this

drag the clip up to a new video track, making sure to make a video track taht has nothing else on it

lock all the other tracks

adjust the speed anyway you want

unlock the tracks and drag your clip back down, making sure to truncate it so you wont overwrite anything

OR

mark in and out on the clip in your sequence

backload the clip into your source viewer

pick an new our or in you would see iff you slowed it down

do a fit to fill back into your timeline

in response to the other solutions, dragging the clip up is faster then cutting and pasting into a new sequence or at the end of your existing sequence

AND

if you adjust the speed in the viewer after you backload it, it changes the speed in the browser and makes it a pain to work with that clip elsewhere, because now its off-speed

and just for the record, the decison to ripple the timeline or change the in and out should simply be a choice and not be locked either way. After all, thats why theres 8 horses in a race!

hope this helps

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Tom Wolsky]

Instead of match framing back to the browser use Cmd-Opt-F which matches frames back to a new copy of media directly from the drive. When you change the speed of that and edit it into the timeline it’s an independent clip.

All the best,

Tom

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