Final Cut Pro X Guru: Creating Speed Changes

Learn how to bend a little bit of space and time with Final Cut Pro's time remapping and speed adjustment tools.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Key Speed Basics

• Freeze framing a clip
• Hold speed
• Retiming a clip via presets
• Reversing a clip
• Retiming a clip manually
• Custom Speed dialog
• Changing the speed of speakers

2. Understanding Rendering Quality

• Speeds that work well with Normal or Frame Blending quality modes
• Optical Flow and getting the best results

3. Automatic Adjustments

• Speed Ramp
• Instant Replay
• Rewind
• Jump cuts at markers

4. Advanced Speed Changes

• Using the Range tool for partial speed changes
• Using the high frame rate (HFR) material natively
• Using the Blade Speed to to refine speed changes
• Using Motion to build a strobe effect

Conclusion

• Next steps