speed w/no ripple

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

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: Put the cursor 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 CMD-OPT-F (Match Frame to Source File) … this loads a ‘temporary’ copy of the real “original” so a “match-frame” 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.

[Paul Renner]

Thanks, works great! Is there any quicker way to really fine tune speed while in sequence much like Premiere Pro does?

[Andy Mees]

No, this is the way FCP handles speed, it always preserves the in and the out of the timeline clip instance, so any changes directly affect the timeline.

its just one of those things … if you’d like a checkbox in the speed dialog to ‘Preserve timeline duration’ then go to the Final Cut Pro > Provide Feddback menu item and let Apple know