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Subclip aspect ratio issue
Hi guys,
We’ve got a whole bunch of DV tapes that I’ve captured. They are anamorphic and display correctly in the viewer, so I’m happy. We hired someone in who split all the tapes into subclips (following “how-to” instructions which I gave him) and today now that I’ve come to take over the project, most of the subclips open in the viewer with pillar-boxes EVEN THOUGH the source clips open into the viewer correctly.
The subclips look like 4:3 images in a 16:9 space. So I created a subclip right now from a master reel and it looks perfect – ie, filling the 4:3 frame looking too tall.
Given that hours of work looks wrong now but obviously the correct info is there, is there a quick fix I can apply to all the subclips?
Thanks.
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Double click the source clip to put it in the Viewer. Go to the Motion tab, and then open Distort. See what the aspect ratio is. It’s probably 0, but whatever it is make a note of it.
Do the exact same thing for one of the subclips. You’ll probably find the aspect ratio to be different.
If that’s the case and they are different, put one of your source clips with the correct aspect ratio and ALL the subclips into a timeline. Click the source clip in the timeline once so it highlights, then hit CMD + C at the same time. Your clip attributes are now stored in memory. Highlight ALL the subclips in the timeline, CONTROL-CLICK, and select Paste Attributes in the dialog box that pops up. In the next box, select Distort, then OK. The aspect ratio of the clips should now be correct. However, I believe it only adjusts the clips that are in the timeline, not the Browser.
What you may want to try is exactly the above, except instead of highlighting the subclips in your timeline, highlight them in the Browser instead and then do the Paste Attributes thing. I don’t know if that will work and affect the clips in the Browser, but it’s worth a shot. If not, at least you know how to fix the subclips once you have them in your timeline.
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Thanks Dave – this was the first thing I tried. What I was getting was the main clip checked as anamorphic and various subclips created from it also checked as anamorphic. Forget the sequence/timeline at this point. Just double clicking the clips showed them looking different from each other in the viewer.
KelMedia – thanks for the tip. I’m away from the system at the moment but I’ll look at that on Monday. I’d be very surprised if you’re right though because these subclips were just created from masters in a logging session and that’s it. We’ll see.
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Well Kelmedia – color me VERY surprised!! You were absolutely right – the distort aspect of the affected clips was not 0 but rather 33.33.
The question now remains, how did this change on only some clips? The guy doing the logging was an absolute FCP novice and was just following my logging instructions by breaking the main clips into subclips. Seemingly FCP did this on its own for some reason. Hmmm …
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