Sequence moves when changing clip speed

Whenever I edit an individual clip's speed, the sequence in front of it gets moved backwards or forwards. It even moves the sequence markers! How do I get rid of this, so only the clip grows and shrinks, without affecting the space around it?
Thanks.

Michael Patten1 wrote:
this is a mediocre work around. I have cross dissolves and and filters attached to my clips. Either method, I have to do band-aid work to keep my sequence unaffected.
You have been provided, promptly and free of charge, the only viable solution by a patient and knowledgable Final Cut user. I believe the proper English expression would be "Thanks, but..."
Curiously, this change in FCP's speed adjustment—known as rippling—was changed sometime between FCP2 and FCP5, can't recall when exactly. It was apparently made at the behest of Those Who Decide Such Things. People like me howled in protest. IN FCP7, you have a choice in the speed dialog to ripple or not.
bogiesan

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This only happens when I am using Quicktime Animation codec in AE
So don't do that. It's probably not the best choice for video, anyway. I mean it says right in the name - "animation". There's a reason for that.
On a Windows machine, Lagarith and UT are two free lossless codecs that play well within the Adobe suite. Give them a try.
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When working with FCP I have continuously had problems with changing clip speeds. I import my .dv files, open them in the viewer window, select my desired in and out points and drag and drop the selection in the timeline. Once it's here and I attempt to change it's speed, I get this message:
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Welcome to the forum!
Usually you'll get that message if there are clips further down the Timeline (to the right) from the clip your working with. This helps keep the other clips where you wanted them instead of getting pushed down by a slo-mo clip.
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As many of you know it's impossible to achieve your desired outcome without the ability to edit a clips speed
I'd have to disagree with your assumption ... the need for speed changes isn't universal. I seldom (if ever) need to adjust speed for news clips, press conferences, corporate promos, etc.
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Thanks Russ,
But the correct answer is "I am ignorant". Your response made me look at how i had the whole sequence set up and I realized that the audio track for the whole thing was on a3 and of course it wasn't shifting clips after all but changing the whole audio track.
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