• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Downconverting or just resizing?

  Posted by Andrea Mino on November 14, 2008 at 2:31 pm

  Hi all,

  sorry if this is a question that has come up before in this forum (i’ve found answers but i just want to be sure). I have some material shot at 1440×1080 HD that need to be downconverted to SD for broadcasting. Is it just matter of grabbing the info edited from one sequence and pasting it into a Ntsc sequence??

  I did it two times in different ways and got two different results: the first one was copying from the HD sequence and pasting into the SD sequence, the result was that the clips were two big, therefore, i assume, i have to scale them down. The second was dragging the clips from the browser into the SD sequence and reedit, in this case fcp resized them, these left black bars on top and bottom of the clips, therefore, i assume, i have to scale them up.

  Are these procedures correct? is there any difference doing so? In previous workflows that guy who makes the color correction and effect would send me back the clips 720×480 and that didn’t create any problem, i just put them on the SD sequence and everything was fine, but now he didn’t so i’m a bit confused about what to do.

  thanks all.
  a.

  Chris Borjis replied 17 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Chris Borjis

  November 14, 2008 at 5:14 pm

  I always use compressor to resize clips (set the resize for best quality)
  using ProRes or uncompressed so a generation loss does not occur.

  Final cut pro is incapable of proper high quality down conversion on its
  own with nesting or scaling.

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