Can't change speed to Variable/grayed out

Hi,
I tried searching this board under various speed terminologies including time remap and also the manual and FCP Help at apple.com but cannot find the answer. I want to use the time remap feature but variable speed is grayed out. If I try command J I have the same issue. It is set on constant speed and I can't change it. I tried numerous clips and have the problem with each of them... curious...
I've done it before and it worked fine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Pk

Glad you've gotten it working, and I believe this is the primary workflow for this operation. I know I've seen posts of people 'globally' doing speed changes in either the viewer or the browser (can't remember which ATM), but I've not been successful with that process.
I've always done speed changes in the timeline (and always in a seperate 'working' timeline, then bringing the clip back into my project timeline.
One thing to be aware of, if you're not already...FCP works very strangely with time-remapping...the upshot is that FCP looks at the 'original' file length to extrapolate the keyframes...EX:
If you time-remap a 10 second clip that was captured as a 10 second clip, things should work great.
If you time-remap a 10 second portion of a clip that was captured as a 20 minute chunk, things will be very funky.
Workaround is to cut out only the 10 sec. portion of a long clip you want to time-remap and export that as a self-contained file, then import that file and apply time-remapping to it...weird science, but that's been pretty consistently documented in this forum
Best of luck,
K

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