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  Using “distort” in Motion Tab incurs one frame delay? Any work around?

  Posted by Michael Buday on January 27, 2006 at 7:59 pm

  Hi,

  I have to send ABC 4:3 letterboxed versions of the 16:9 anamorphic “cinematics” I’ve been editing for a video-game. I copied the clips from the 16:9 sequence and dropped them into a 4:3 sequence. FCP appears to have automatically applied a -33.33 aspect ratio correction to letterbox the 16:9 material in a 4:3 frame.

  So far, so good.

  Playing back the sequence also looks fine.

  However, when I export the sequence as a QT movie, there’s a single frame of black at the head of every cut. This would make sense in a linear suite with a DVE effect applied to ’cause there’s no head or tail on any of the source material (I’ve used every frame the animators gave me), and in that case I would advance the source material by one frame to compensate the “delay” in the DVE.

  Does FCP have the same problem when using the motion tab?? This seems crazy! Are there any work arounds?

  Thanks in advance!

  Michael Buday

  Michael Buday replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  January 27, 2006 at 8:08 pm

  I don’t think this has anything to do with the motion tab. Where’s this material come from? It sounds like there’s a field error which you’re not seeing when play back in the canvas but you see on export. Do you see it on playback to a video monitor?

  All the best,

  Tom

  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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  Michael Buday

  January 27, 2006 at 8:22 pm

  The material came from TIF files that I assembled into QT movie using the “image sequence” import function of QT-Pro. I brought them in as DV/DVCPRO, progressive (for offline). FYI, all my timeline fors for this project are progressive as well.

  I’ve output this same sequence several times without using the motion tab, and everything looks perfect. Only when I introduced the aspect ration change did the problem begin.

  And unfortunately, no I haven’t yet hooked up a monitor for this project, but it sounds like I should.

  Thanks Tom.

  Michael Buday
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  Michael Buday

  January 27, 2006 at 10:50 pm

  I found out what the problem was, and you were right, it wasn’t the motion tab. Turned out the editing timebase in the new sequence was set to 30 rather then 29.97fps. Cutting out the clips, changing to the corect frame-rate and pasting them back in solved the problem.

  Thanks for your help.

  Michael

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