• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  widescreen effect / letterbox on separate video track?

  Posted by Christoph Strothjohann on March 19, 2009 at 9:53 am

  hi everyone.

  the widescreen / letterbox effect can only be applied to the clips themselves.
  because we have to be able to turn it off quickly and apply two different ones for viewing alternatives
  (2.35 and 1.85 alternating) i would love to find a way to put that filter on a separate video track above my edits. is there an easy, not render intensive way of doing so?

  thanks in advance…

  Christoph Strothjohann replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  March 19, 2009 at 10:01 am

  What do you mean, apply the filter to the whole sequence?
  You can nest the sequence and apply the filter, or just drop the sequence in another sequence and apply the filter on that.
  rafael

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  Christoph Strothjohann

  March 19, 2009 at 10:21 am

  hi rafael
  thanks for the quick response.
  I´m looking for a way to do it without having to nest the sequence, so i can see the letterbox while i´m editing in my original timeline as well…
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  Alex Elkins

  March 19, 2009 at 11:14 am

  [Christoph Strothjohann] “I´m looking for a way to do it without having to nest the sequence, so i can see the letterbox while i´m editing in my original timeline as well…”

  Create the two widescreen mattes in photoshop and stretch it out over the whole sequence. Or if you have a Kona card, I think you can can load a graphic with an alpha channel (your matte) into it and it will output it to your monitors over the video image and decks with the widescreen matte on, thus not adding any render time. This wouldn’t work when outputting to DVD/web etc though.
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  Al Sinclair

  March 19, 2009 at 12:09 pm

  There’s a great (free!) generator available at http://www.lasserij.nl/fcp …I use it as standard now…

  You can also drop some slug onto your top two layers – move one up and one down then lock the layers so they don’t get budged around by accident.

  Hope that helps!
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  Christoph Strothjohann

  March 19, 2009 at 5:34 pm

  “There’s a great (free!) generator available at http://www.lasserij.nl/fcp …I use it as standard now… ”

  thanks a lot.
  the plugin works perfect for my purpose!

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