• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  changing clips in timeline to anamorphic

  Posted by John Henion on April 25, 2007 at 9:11 pm

  I’m working on a project that was shot anamorphic, but not digitized as such. So, the remedy is to put a check in the ‘anamorphic’ row of the loggin info correct? However, I’ve already edited many clips to the timeline. And after changing the logging info to anamorphic for the master clips, the clips in the timeline remain stretched. So my question: Is there a way to get the clips in the timeline to view as anamorphic without re-editing all the clips to the timeline?

  thanks.

  Nick Meyers replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  David Smith

  April 25, 2007 at 9:31 pm

  In the Browser, is the anamorphic box checked for the sequence?
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  John Henion

  April 25, 2007 at 10:42 pm

  That did the trick. Thank you…

  But now I have a second quick question – It appears that some of the footage i’m working with was shot (dvx100b footage) in 24p Normal with the widescreen matte, and some shot in 24p Normal in Anamorphic mode. Is there any way to convert the footage shot in widesceen matte mode to anamorphic so it will all work in an anamorphic timeline properly? And will I lose a lot of quality this way?
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  Nick Meyers

  April 25, 2007 at 11:56 pm

  you need to scale the image up to 133.33%
  so yes, there will be a noticeable quality drop.
  cut one into the timeline.
  double click it into the viewer.
  go to the viewers motion tab,
  scale up to 133.33%

  NOW hit Control F

  you’ve just made a motion favourite.

  go to your favourites bin in the Effects tab of the Browser,
  you’ll see a small green & black thing with the name of the clip.
  re-name it 133% blow-up, or whatever.
  now you can drag and drop that onto any clip that need the blow-up.

  you can also assign a keystroke to it.
  in the Keyboard layout window it’s called “Motion Path”

  cheers,
  nick
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  John Henion

  April 26, 2007 at 12:52 am

  Thanks Nick,

  anyway to do it without losing any quality? perhaps recapturing?
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  Nick Meyers

  April 26, 2007 at 1:31 am

  it’s like that on the tape, i’m afraid.

  to get the best quality scaing in FCP:
  open the sequences settings (Sequence Menu > Settings, or Apple zero)
  got to the Video Processing tab,
  and set “Motion Filtering Quality” to best

  of course if you only had to deliver a 4/3 letterboxed version, not a true 16/9 then you could simply work in a 4/3 sequence.
  the 16/9 shots will scale down, and the letterboxed stuff will be at it;s true size.

  nick

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