fcpx change speed on the fly during playback

Hi,


Is there shortcut or keyboard command that allows you to slow down playback and then it up again to 100% without making the playhead jump backwards or forwards due to the contraction or expansion of the clip? My optimum solution would be to watch playback at 100% then when it gets to some part where I want it to slow down to 10%, I'd hit the 1 key (or similar), then if I wanted to go to 50% I'd hit the 5 key, and when I wanted it back to 100% I'd hit some other key like R -- all without stopping the playback.


I tried the shortcuts for "retime" (50%, 25%, and return to full speed) but these cause the playhead to jump around to different parts of the video (apparently due to the clip getting longer or shorter and the playhead continuing to play at the same spot in the timeline), whereas I just want it to stay in the same spot and either speed up the play or slow it down, depending on my momentary wishes.


Thanks!

Final Cut Pro X, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Oct 2, 2018 2:15 PM

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Posted on Oct 2, 2018 2:29 PM

Do you want to change the speed of the clip itself? That’s what retime does. If you are only talking about playback speed in the browser or timeline, there is no function for what you want. You can hold the arrow keys for slow playback or KL together for slow forward and KJ for slow backward.

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Oct 2, 2018 2:51 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks. I don't want to change the speed of the clip, but you educated me on the K-L and the K-J, which get me a good bit of what I wanted. Seems kinda weird to me that this wouldn't be a popular request, as I'm basically reviewing my video and deciding what clips so mark as I play through it and I like to slow down as I see the mark points coming. But maybe I just need to play more with the keys you suggested. Thx again.

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