FCP7 Speed change with keyframes on motion tab

I am trying to change the speed of my video in FCP7 with keyframes. I am cueing where I want the speed change to begin and clicking on the motion tab in the
viewer. next I change the speed percentage and click a keyframe then I cue on my timeline to where I want the speed to go back to 100% and click the keyframe button in the motion tab. I render it to see it and the whole clip in the timeline is in slow motion. This does not coincide with what I am trying to achieve. Just want to start out 100% speed then go to 50% speed then back to 100% speed then the clip ends. Thanks.

that's probably way overkill in terms of the quality of material shot on an iphone.  Is that the pixel dimensions of the original file from the iphone? 
What's your end use for this material?  The web?  DVD? 
And what are your sequence settings?  make the timeline active and hit command-zero.  in one of your posts you said 720 30p .  30p is actually 29.97 frames per second. 
Because this is a non standard format, you may need to convert them to match your sequence settings.  First thing to do is to take them into cinema tools and conform the clips to 29.97.  This will slow them down slightly but there is no loss in quality.  Each frame remains the same, they are just played slower.  It may not work with this format, so you may need to convert them to a standard format as I said above.
If you still have the original files from the iphone, going back to them to do these conversions may be the best way to maintain quality. 
If you have a short clip directly from the iphone and would like me to do a quick test of the (hopefully) best workflow, I would then be able to describe it to you concisely.
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