Speed adjustment (not entire clip)

I am already well aware that in order to adjust the speed of a clip in your movie you have to "convert" the clip. My question is that if you select a clip in the actual project and convert it, will it just convert the that selected clip or will it convert the ENTIRE clip (the source clip). Currently I have an 11 second clip I want to convert and it's taking FOREVER cause the source clip is kind of 2 hours or so. Haha! Can anyone help me out?

Hi carlirae93,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1199
Best of luck,
Mario

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1 and 3... Ideally I would like a 3 sec wait time after adjusting the mach number. I don’t believe this timer was included in the other code; instead I was trying to explain where I had tried putting it. I tried putting it in the same case structure as the while loop that collects the mach number. It was before the loop. In addition, I tried putting it in the structure that the increase/decrease daq assistants were. Each location allowed me to have a time < 3s. When I set the timer to 3s that is when I would get the error.
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