[MacDV] FCP--Using Variable Speed--Not easy.

[James Asherman]

On Wednesday, August 4, 2004, at 02:23  PM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> Ted Langdell
> Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
> Marysville, CA
>
>
> Does anyone have a simple explanation for how to use the variable 
> speed feature of Final Cut Pro?
>
> It's not exactly intuitive, like most other things about FCP.
>
> When I've tried to use the feature, the clip ends up jumping to 
> somewhere else within the captured clip, among other less than amusing 
> things.
>
> Ted.
>
>

The variable speed is weird. It seems to vary the speed up and down 
across the clip and keep the total clip time the same. So if you speed 
up the end the biginning slows down or vice  versa. I too have had some 
trouble lately with Slo-mo.
  Sometimes I select a clip , slow the speed and either it just makes 
the clip longer
or as you said jumps to some other place altogether.
  This seems to be related to the timecode and reels, because it does 
not happen consistently.
Also sometimes I slow a clip right at the end and the canvas goes 
orange and won't come back. At that point you have to move the cursor 
back to a normal clip and close and reopen the sequence, which can lose 
some work, but if you save it screwed up it wants to stay that way.
  So I too have been getting some strange speed related probs and just 
work around them.
Jim