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Is it possible to slowdown the playback speed in the viewer. I know that I can increase the playback speed of the timeline by pressing L several times. Is there a way to opposite, slow the playback down so that the timeline plays slower?
Ian's suggestion of using Retime is probably best. Command-R the clip, select the downward pointing caret and select Slow > 50%, 25% or 10%, then you can do the same and select Normal to go back to full speed.
If you type the '/' key for a selection, the playback will loop until you stop it. [Selection can be a selected clip, selected group of clips, or a simple *range* selection...] Shift-/ will go back 2 seconds and play to 2 seconds past the playhead — when you stop playback, the playhead is returned to its starting position (where it was when you typed Shift-/).
HTH
Ian's suggestion of using Retime is probably best. Command-R the clip, select the downward pointing caret and select Slow > 50%, 25% or 10%, then you can do the same and select Normal to go back to full speed.
If you type the '/' key for a selection, the playback will loop until you stop it. [Selection can be a selected clip, selected group of clips, or a simple *range* selection...] Shift-/ will go back 2 seconds and play to 2 seconds past the playhead — when you stop playback, the playhead is returned to its starting position (where it was when you typed Shift-/).
HTH
Alternatively you could select all the clips involved and add the retime function, selecting any figure you wished.
Of course, you would have to remember to return the speed to normal before exporting your project.
The big question is why do you want to slow down the playback speed whilst editing?
I've starting developing a Slow Speed template/plugin and I would also be interested as to why you would need to do this as well.
My "plugin" (Effect) can reset the playback speed all the way down to a still frame (plus offset the start of the play range). This is a variation of one I've already published which allows you to keyframe an internal playhead (so playback frames in any order forwards or backwards... plus a few other features, but not really applicable to your request.)
Effects can be set up and then simply turned on/off as needed. No need to continually add/remove them while working.
Was given a .mov file where there are lightning fast transitions and effects. They happen so fast that all you are left with is an impression that something happened. I thought it would be interesting to play it back at half or quarter speed so that I would get a better sense of the movement.
Hold K and L together. Or hold the right arrow key.
I know about those. Was hoping for a turn it on/off change speed function like the L key operation.
I added the retime feature as suggested. Had to slow the video down to 10% to see everything that was going on. Thanks for the help.
How to slowdown the playback speed in FCP
