• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  importing odd-sized HDV files

  Posted by Liammorgan on November 20, 2006 at 2:40 pm

  Hi, I’m rendering some timelapse footage out of after effects into HDV108050i codec with a frame size of 1920×1280 (the aspect of the stills compiled). the QT files play fine in quicktime, but when I bring them into FCP, they get all distorted. When I look in the item properties (in FCP) for the files, it says the frame size is 1440×1280. Why is this happening? will I have to re-render all my footage?

  Liam

  Tom Wolsky replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tom Wolsky

  November 20, 2006 at 3:09 pm

  If you’re working in an HDV 1080 sequence, the format is squeezed to help compression. That’s what the application is doing, squeezing the material the way the video is squeezed. It’s probably the 1920 horizontal resolution that’s triggering this. You might try conform the images to the HDV 1080 preset in footage and see if that fixes it. You might laos try changing the horizontal resolution to something different that doesn’t match the 1920×1080 size of HD.

  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” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

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