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547Final Cut Pro User Guide
Turn off Preserve Pitch for retimed clips
By default, Final Cut Pro is set to preserve the audio pitch of a clip that has been retimed.
However, if you want to accentuate the retiming adjustment’s effect by allowing the pitch
to change in accordance with the retiming adjustment, you can turn this feature off.
1. In the Final Cut Pro timeline, select a range, a whole clip, or a group of clips whose
speed you want to change.
2. Apply the speed change.
3. Click the Retime pop-up menu below the viewer and choose Preserve Pitch.
Choose Preserve Pitch again to turn it back on. A checkmark to the left of the command
name indicates that Preserve Pitch is turned on.
Create speed effects by maintaining a clip’s original frame rate
If you’ve applied speed effects using your camera (for example, by shooting with a high
frame rate), the native speed of the source media may not match the native speed of the
source media for the rest of the clips in your project in the timeline. If you shoot video at
a different frame rate to create a speed effect, you can use the Automatic Speed option to
maintain the clip’s original frame rate.
For example, suppose you shoot a scene at 120 fps and then add the shot to a 30 fps
project. If you apply Automatic Speed to that clip, every frame in the original clip plays
back at the project’s frame rate of 30 fps, so the action takes longer and a slow-motion
effect is created. You can use this method to create high-quality speed effects, because
every frame in the original clip is played back—no frames are skipped or duplicated.
1. In the Final Cut Pro timeline, select the clip whose original frame rate you want to
maintain.
2. Click the Retime pop-up menu below the viewer and choose Automatic Speed.