15min clip to 3sec clip fast forward

Hi,
I have a 15 min clip of downtown skyline. I want to compress/speed up and fit into 3/5 sec. Just to show the changing color gradient of skyline. Is this possible to do it FCP?
Thanks,
Karur
Mac OS X (10.2.x)

I just noticed (hey, I'm sleepy) that your clip is 15 minutes ... I mis-read it as seconds. I don't think FCP will speed up a clip that much, but you could speed it up as far as possible, then export it as a QT movie, import the new file and speed it up again until you get the result you want.
You could also create one still frame per second (or one every 10 seconds, etc), then drop the still frames on the Timeline for a time-lapsed effect.
-DH

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15min clip to 3sec clip fast forward

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