• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  853×480 and 720×480

  Posted by Anthony Faulkner on August 13, 2009 at 5:56 am

  Hi

  I have a some mixed footage that i want to edit unfortunately most of it was shot delivered in 853×480 and some in 720×480.

  Making the sequence 853×480.

  The 853×480 imported with square pixels and no field dominance

  changing it to CCIR 601 and lower field dominance. Has it in the ball park but it leaves my 720 footage, but leaves the 720 with black edges…

  Is there some way to get the footage to come together better and is there something i am missing!!

  thanks for any assistance

  Anthony

  Nicole Haddock replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Nicole Haddock

  August 13, 2009 at 6:09 am

  Is the 720×480 footage widescreen, or 16×9 anamorphic, or full screen, aka 4×3?

  If you make a new sequence that’s 720×480 anamorphic, DV pixels and sink your clips in, the 853 footage should fit in fine. If the 720 footage fits, it’s anamorphic. If there are black bars on the side, it’s 4×3, at which point you can either 1) blow the footage up to fill the screen, 2) live with it, or 3) reverse engines, make a 720×480 non-anamorphic timeline, and when you pop your 853 footage in, bars will appear on the top and bottom, which you can either keep, or blow the footage up, thereby cutting off the edges.

  Let me know if this doesn’t make sense. It’s late and the insomnia is making me loopy.

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