• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  PROBLEM: mixed formats (XD CAM and DV PAL) in sequence

  Posted by Annu Lilja on May 24, 2008 at 8:49 pm

  I’m working mainly with material frm HD CAM, and therefore my sequence settings are

  Frame size: 1920 x 1080
  Aspect Ratio: HDTV 1080i (16:9)
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square
  Field Dominance: None

  Compressor:XD CAM EX 1080p25 (35Mb/s VBR)

  I also have some DV material. At first I did not have a problem mixing the two formats in the same sequence. At some point though, I have copied material to another sequence, and the sequence settings for that sequence are

  Frame size: 720 x 576
  Aspect Ratio: CCIR 601/DV PAL (5:4)
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: PAL-CCIR 601 (720×576)
  Field Dominance: Lower (Even)

  Compressor:DV-PAL

  In THIS sequence, the DV material appears to be zoomed in. If I change the setting to match the FIRST settings, the XDCAM material appears in a little box in the middle of the monitor, and the DV material appears as a normal size. Copy pasting the material to a sequence with the first settings does not help the situation either.

  What can I do to see both the DV material and the XD CAM material as a normal size?

  Will I havve trouble exporting this sequence (burning a DVD of it) with the two different formats?

  I am in a rush with this problem, so I really appreciate any hints I can get.

  Thanks for your help!!!

  Annu

  Rafael Amador replied 17 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rafael Amador

  May 25, 2008 at 2:16 am

  Hi Annou,
  Go to; Users Preferences> Editing.
  Down in the right corner check “Always scale clips to sequence size”.

  Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
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  ..and always a big mess on top of the table.

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