Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 751)

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Changing Clip Speed
You can adjust a clip’s speed parameters to create
fast- or slow-motion effects.
This chapter covers the following:
 Speed Basics (p. 751)
 Speed Settings (p. 755)
 Making Speed Changes (p. 757)
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.
You may have different reasons for changing the speed settings. 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 cues in your sequence. The rest of the frames in the clip are automatically
played faster or slower to compensate.