Controlling video ramping and making it smooth

Hi. I wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of a good tutorial on video ramping, or explain how to do it well in laymans terms?
I have tried using the stopwatch option on the slip slide tool, but am unclear how to really control it the way that I want. Say I want variable points of slowing down and speeding up within the clip. How do I control this without ending up with very slow motion at one end and extremely quick motion at the other. In experimenting with the stopwatch, I always end up with each succesive point building upon the previous, where I would rather reset at each succesive clip. Perhaps i am misunderstanding the values...?
What I want to do is slow a real time sequence of someon sitting in a chair down to about half speed, and then speed it up again as they stand and walk away ending up at about 500% speed which should continue into the next clip and then slow down again smoothly to half speed as they pick something up from a table.
Please help.
Thanks

http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/fcp_4_timeremap.html
Should get you on your way.
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[svn:osmf:] 14521: ChromeLibrary: moving live and recording buttons to the left hand side of the control bar , and making the button backdrops a little bigger.

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ChromeLibrary: moving live and recording buttons to the left hand side of the control bar, and making the button backdrops a little bigger.
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