Final Cut Pro 6 - Viewing Time Remapping Parameters Applied to Your Clips

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Viewing Time Remapping Parameters Applied to Your Clips

Four graphical displays in the Timeline show you speed settings applied to your clips.
Before learning how to make speed changes, it’s important for you to understand the
information these displays give you. All of them update as you make adjustments, so
you can see exactly how a speed change you make affects the clip being adjusted.

Motion bar (blue)

Speed indicator area

Speed tooltips

Keyframe editor

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Changing Clip Speed and Time Remapping

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 Speed indicator area: Speed indicators show you the speed of clips in your sequence

using tick marks. The spacing and color of these tick marks indicate the speed and
playback direction of your clips. The speed indicators of clips in the Timeline update
in real time as you make variable speed adjustments to clips in your sequence,
showing you exactly how you’re altering a clip’s timing.

Note: You cannot adjust speed in the speed indicator area.

 Motion bar: By default, the motion bar displays all motion parameter keyframes

applied to a clip. You can change this so that only time remapping keyframes are
displayed. For more information on customizing the motion bar, see “

Working with

the Filters and Motion Bars

” on page 324.

 Keyframe editor: The keyframe editor shows you a keyframe graph you can use to

view different motion settings and filters applied to clips in your sequence. The same
parameters can be viewed in the keyframe graph area of the Filters and Motion tabs
in the Viewer. The keyframe editor can display only one motion or filter parameter’s
keyframe graph line at a time. Like the speed indicators, a clip’s keyframe graph line
updates as you make variable speed adjustments to clips in your sequence. For more
information, see “

Working with the Timeline Keyframe Editor

” on page 325.

 Speed tooltips: When you use the Time Remap tool, a tooltip shows you information

about the speed change you’re about to make. For more information on using the
Time Remap tool, see “

Using the Time Remap Tool

” on page 353.

For more information on using the motion bar and keyframe editor, see “

Working with

the Filters and Motion Bars

” on page 324 and “

Working with the Timeline Keyframe

Editor

” on page 325.

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