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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

You're reading from   Final Cut Pro X Cookbook Edit with style and ease using the latest editing technologies in Final Cut Pro X! with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692960
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Final Cut Pro X Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Importing Your Media FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Your Workflow 3. Basic Editing Mechanics 4. Enhancing Your Editing 5. Sweetening and Fixing Your Sound 6. Practical Magic a.k.a Useful Effects 7. Titles, Transitions, and Generators 8. Get Your Movie to Move 9. Altering the Aesthetics of Your Image 10. Getting Your Project Out of FCPX Working with Motion and Compressor

Making freeze frames and speed changes


Life moves at one speed—1x (although, I'm sure we all feel differently sometimes, for example when writing a book), but unlike real life, movies can be a lot cooler when they move slower or faster than real time. Final Cut Pro X makes it easy to slow down or speed up clips to fit your needs within a project down to the frame.

Getting ready

Any clips at all can be used to illustrate speed changes. We're going to experiment on three clips in this exercise.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Click on any clip in your timeline. Our first shot is a pan of a produce aisle in a grocery store. The shot is nice and smooth, but the pan is a bit fast, so we need to slow it down to appreciate the imagery.

  2. 2. Click on the Retime button in the toolbar and choose Slow | 50%, as shown in the following screenshot:

    In the timeline, the clip appears longer, but the Retime Editor that appears over the clip tells us that the clip is merely playing at 50% speed. We are not seeing any new frames...

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