Changing speed midway through clip in Motion

I have an 8-second clip in Motion that I've animated and added effects to, and would now like to speed it up. But I don't want the entire clip's speed to increase, I'd like it to run at normal speed for the first 4 seconds, then ramp up dramatically so that the last 4 seconds play in under 2 seconds.
I know there is a way to alter a clip's speed in FCP, but that won't help me here. The clip I'm trying to speed up is part of a really complicated composite I'm building in Motion and I need each clip in the comp to speed up at different times with different rates.
There MUST be an easy way to do this in Motion, right?

Put everything in a group, clone the group, turn off the group, and apply a Set Speed retiming behavior. Trim the behavior to the section you want and set the speed you want.

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Jerry's right...
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2494
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2491
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