
You paste the entire movie into this reduced selection by selecting “Edit > Add to Selection & Scale”
Drag the “out” marker to halfway along (for twice the playback speed) – See the image below. There seemed to be no answer to our little problem, however, I did manage to learn a little more about Quicktime Pro and came to a solution that feels too simple to have eluded me for so long. I searched and searched but the Internet had let me down. But this, to me, felt like one step to many. We did finally manage to get the effect, but only by using Final Cut Pro. I was expecting this to be as easy as, say, selecting a menu item such as “speed” in Quicktime Pro.
All we wanted to do was speed up the playback of the video to play at twice the speed. No real problem there, but we came across a bit of a hurdle when it came to, what I believed was, a fairly simple video process.
We’re in the middle of a little website refresh here at Dusted and as part of this we are including some video on our site.