Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1122)

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Changing Clip Speed
and Time Remapping
You can adjust a clip’s speed parameters to create
fast- or slow-motion effects. With time remapping,
you can create variable speed effects.
This chapter covers the following:
 Speed Basics (p. 337)
 Constant and Variable Speed Settings (p. 341)
 Making Constant Speed Changes (p. 344)
 Making Variable Speed Changes (p. 345)
Speed Basics
The default speed of all clips is 100 percent, but you can change a clip’s speed setting
at any time.
 Slow motion: Speed is under 100 percent.
 Fast motion: Speed is over 100 percent.
 Variable speed: Speed changes over time, using the time remapping feature.
You may have different reasons for changing the speed settings. For example, you may
want to solve editorial problems in your sequence. In that case, you can do a fit to fill
edit, making a clip longer to fill more time or shorter if an action takes longer than
you’d like. You can use variable speed changes to create ramping speed changes from
slow to fast motion, and from forward to reverse. This allows you to make specific
frames in a clip occur at particular points in your sequence. The rest of the frames in
the clip are automatically played faster or slower to compensate.