Retiming in shake from fcp5

Hi folks,
Wonder if you can help. When I sent a clip from the timeline in fcp to shake, I opened it up successfully and applied a constant speed change in shake. The problem is that it seemed to then lose the in and out point of the clip and apply it to the whole of the captured footage that the clip had been edited from, thus I lost my piece of selected footage. Anyone know what's going on? Am I better to export said clip as a separate quicktime and then filein? The possibility of sending straight from the fcp timeline seemed a good one and shake's optical flow innards make lovely smooth slo-mo. Any ideas for maintaining a quick and smooth workflow?

Dom in Sheffield wrote:
Hi folks,
Am I better to export said clip as a separate quicktime and then filein?
This is what I do. I don't like the "send to" capability from the FCP timeline, probably because I don't understand it, so I always make separate files, do my things in Shake, export, import back into FCP.
You don't have Motion 3 which has an optical flow retimer that works the same way, on the entire clip, not just the portion used in a sequence.

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