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16×9 question
Hi there
We’re playing with formatting our short in 16×9 (shot in 4×3)
When we apply 16×9 to the whole timeline, the quality comes out much as we’d expect, but when we do it clip by clip to get the best framing we can, somehow the image gets blurry like it’s being rendered to a different resolution.
What are we doing wrong?
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6 Replies
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When adjusting the position of the clips, be sure to use whole, even numbers in your Motion tab. If you drag the image with the mouse it will not be exact, but you can then re-type the nearest whole, even number. (The even number thing applies mainly to the y-axis).
One way that I have done this it dragging my 4:3 sequence into a new sequence and applying the Widescreen filter to the nested sequence. Then I can go back in the 4:3 sequence and re-position the shots as needed.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Thanks for writing.
We’re a little unclear where in the motion tab you’re referring to. Sorry if this is vague, I’m relaying from our editing people and can’t see the screen at all.
We are moving into the wide screen filter dropdown, double clicking in the viewfinder, going to the offset and using the slidebar to select -100 to 100. Are these the numbers you are referring to, or is there someplace else we should be looking?
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[sadrabbit] “Are these the numbers you are referring to, or is there someplace else we should be looking?”
With your clip loaded into the viewer click the motion tab. Under the header “Basic Motion” you’ll see the adjustments for scale, rotation, center and anchor point. Make sure everything is set to even numbers, especially the values controlling the x & y axis in the rotation column.
– Don
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All we see there are ranges from 0-100. Is there a preference somewhere that changes the units those sliders “count” in?
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Let me try to better explain what I was talking about in the last post.
In FCP you can drag a sequence from your Browser directly to a new timeline, and it will appear as one large clip (this is what some call a “nested” sequence or clip). You can then add effects to that one (“nested”) clip and it will affect your entire program. This is not necessarily useful for all effects, but putting a Widescreen filter on your entire program would make sense. Now…
Rather than adjusting the vertical positing from within the widescreen filter, I think it would be preferable to go back into that original (“nested”) sequence by double-clicking it in your timeline (which will open up your original timeline in a new tab on your Timeline window) and then loading each clip that you would like to re-position into the Viewer. Once in the Viewer, click on the Motion tab. Under Basic Motion there is a Center paramater with X and Y fileds for you to enter a number. You would want to enter an even number where the 2nd zero is (by default). Positive numbers move the image down vertically, and negative move it up.
If you get both of your timelines on the same clip, you can then jump between them (by clicking their tab) and see how your image lines up with the Widescreen filter applied.
I hope this helps… Post back if something is not clear. I’m not done with my first cup of coffee yet, so I could have just typed all of this in tounges or something…
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Thanks so much, we really appreciate it, especially since we’re running up against a deadline this week. We get access again to the editing system tonight (long story) so hopefully we’ll be able figure it out then. Any chance you (or someone) will be around for questions/clarifications then?
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