Maximum retime speed

Hope you are on FCPX. I know that clips can be made to run faster but am not sure whether this is waht you are enquiring about. Please view the screenshot below:

You can literally play around with clip timings in FCPX. Select the clip you want to retime, click command>R, and the retime bar appears on the top of the clip. You have the handles at the end. Place your cursor upon those tiny handles until they highlight. Then you can drag the handles to the left to increase clip speed or drag it to the right to decrease the speed. If you want the clip to freeze or hold on any frame, you need to place your skimmer/playhead upon that frame, and with the clip selected, hit shift>H. A brown colored hold bar will appear and you can also use the handles at the right end of the hold-bar to increase or decrease the duration of 'HOLD'.

Hope this helps.

DR.SOMANNA

The maximum speed depends on the clip because, you can retime down to a single frame... so, 1000's of a percent speed up.

Select your clip; type command-R -- the Retiming control appears on top of the clip... the percentage of the speed is in the blue bar below the Retiming title right above the clip. Drag the "grab bars" (2 small black vertical bars) on the right side of the blue bar of the retiming action and drag... watch the percentage; stop at 20%.

Retiming does not change the actual clip. You can retime a clip anytime and FCPX always "remembers" the amount of retiming. You can always restore the clip to it's original length - the easiest way is to click on the white disclosure triangle next to the percentage and select Normal from the dropdown menu. And, you can experiment with different speed settings, in case 20% isn't exactly what you need.

HTH

[guess i was a little slow on this one... LOL]

Sounds like your selecting the speed increase from the drop down menu from the disclosure triangle on the right of the percentage indicator, or selecting the speed from the retiming menu > Fast > 20x. All you need to do is type Command - R; the clip gets enclosed in what looks like a kind of "dialog window" with "Retiming" as the title. Under that is a Green (normal speed), Blue (faster than normal) or Orange (slower than normal) bar with 2 vertical grab marks on the right end. Click and drag on that right edge and drag to whatever speed you need... You should be able to drag the speed up to a single frame (I just dragged a clip to over 25000% (250X) speed (feedback in the colored bar)... The only way you're going to get different speeds from the standard 2x, 4x, 8x and 20x is to use that drag bar.

I apparently have answered your need but you could not understand it. Go ahead and play!😀