[Nick Toth]

Default keyframe behavior is “smooth”. Make sure the playhead is on one of the hold keyframes using the transform controls in the viewer or inspector. In the viewer right click or control click on the keyframe and a menu will pop up. Change the interpolation to linear. Navigate to the next hold keyframe and do the same thing.

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[Nick Toth]

Correct Charlie – here’s what I found with a little further digging.

If I have a clip that was re-timed and set to either frame blending or optical flow and then change it back to 100% it will not revert to normal mode unless I check “normal” mode and then toggle to 50% and then back to 100%.

I don’t know if this caused the original problem of long render/export times but I couldn’t find anything else unusual in the project I was working on.

anickt

[Nick Toth]

Hi David
In looking into it a little further it looks like a bug. Not that this would be a normal workflow but I think it points to an issue. Take a piece of footage at 100%. Under video quality, normal is checked and the three choices (normal, frame blending and optical flow) are grayed out. That’s what I would expect. Next I change the clip speed to 50%. Under video quality normal is checked and all 3 choices are not grayed out. If I choose (for instance) optical flow and then change the clip back to 100% what should happen? I would expect the video quality to revert to normal but it stays on optical flow. OK – so I change the speed back to 50% and check the video quality. Still optical flow. Change the speed back to 100% – quality is still optical flow and choices are not grayed out. Change video quality back to normal and when I leave and then go back to video quality optical flow is checked and the menu is grayed out. Change the clip to 50% and open video quality and normal is checked with choices not grayed out. Change speed back to 100% and video quality normal is checked and choices are grayed out. Is it just me or is this behavior odd? I see this on two different systems.

To get back to my original issue, I think that having all clips with frame blending turned on even though they are at 100% speed may have been causing the sluggish behavior. I couldn’t find anything else unusual. I’m not sure how all of those clips got that way because I don’t believe I ever re-timed any of them. I’ll report it to Apple and see what happens.

anickt

[Nick Toth]

Crashing as you describe it is not normal and most likely points to an issue with your system. I have been using FCP X since it was released and it doesn’t crash any more than FCP legacy did for me which wasn’t all that often.

anickt

[Nick Toth]

I sent feedback regarding this and you should too. A re-link function for text, effects, transitions and generators would be very helpful especially when sharing projects. An option to replace the original item with something else would be helpful too in the event the original item is no longer available.

anickt

[Nick Toth]

If you have Motion, open a copy of the transition in Motion and uncheck the “Transition A” layer for a transition in or uncheck “Transition B” layer for a transition out. Save under a new name. I use a Custom Transitions folder for something like this but whatever works for you.

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[Nick Toth]

It’s there. It just doesn’t work right any more unfortunately. I have reported it to Apple and they are working on it. I have a copy of 10.0.1 and I can speed up an audio clip 150% and it just got faster. The sound was the same. Can’t do that in 10.0.7….

anickt

[Nick Toth]

That’s funny – just this morning I was thinking about when I used to edit a 30 minute sports program with over 75 source tapes in multiple formats………ugh!!

“Waiting for engineering….” LOL!!

anickt

[Nick Toth]

You can just retime the audio clip the same way you can a video clip. Unfortunately this used to work perfectly and the sound was good, just faster. Then something changed with one of the updates around 4 or 5 and you now get reverb/robot effect and a treble/level boost. Sometimes I find it acceptable (especially for spots it can work as an effect) but if I need the re-timed audio to sound right I use the free program Audacity.

anickt

[Nick Toth]

If you slowed the clip down you will get an orange bar at the top of the clip itself if you are still in manual retiming mode. Command-R turns that mode on and off. That shows that the clip is slowed down, not that it is not rendered. Drag the end of the clip and you will see that it changes color depending on whether you are speeding the clip up or slowing it down. Is that it?

anickt