Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1165)

Speed and the Keyframe Graph
The following illustrations show how changes to the keyframe graph affect the speed of
a clip in the Timeline. In each graph, the vertical axis represents media time, where each
tick mark up is a successive frame of your video clip. The horizontal axis represents the
Timeline, where each tick mark represents the duration of one frame playing at the
sequence frame rate.
• Linear time (100 percent speed): This is represented by a straight, upward-sloping diagonal
line, in which one frame of a video clip plays in the space of one frame of the Timeline.
This is real time.
Sequence time
Linea
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Sour
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• Slow motion (less than 100 percent speed): Slow motion is represented by a line with a
more gradual slope, in which one frame of a video clip may play over perhaps three
frames of the Timeline.
Sequence time
Slow motion
Sour
ce time
• Fast-forward (greater than 100 percent speed): Fast-forward speed can be seen as a
steeper line, in which several frames of a video clip play in the space of one frame of
the Timeline.
Sequence time
Fast-f
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Sour
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