• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP Timeline & Sizing Issue

  Posted by Alli Parker on August 20, 2009 at 10:09 am

  Sorry if this has been posted before, but I’ve no idea how to start looking for it.

  Okay. So I have DV-PAL footage. I have a DV-PAL timeline. Sounds like a match made in heaven, right?

  Wrong. For some reason, FCP makes the footage larger and only a small section in the centre of the image is used. I haven’t had this issue before, I’ve been dealing with this footage for awhile but recently I captured some more footage and since then it’s been playing up. All the previous footage is also being difficult.

  I also just tried to play some recently captured footage in FCP and it won’t play it, it stays stuck on the first frame. It plays fine in Quicktime but not in FCP – FCP says the duration is 1 second long but QT says the duration is 54 minutes.

  Settings are:

  Leopard
  10.5.7
  FCP 6.0.6

  DV PAL FOOTAGE
  Vid Rate: 25 fps
  Frame Size: 720×576
  Compression: DV-PAL
  Data Rate: 3.6MB
  Pixel Aspect: PAL-CCIR601
  Anamorphic
  Lower Field Dominance

  FCP TIMELINE
  Frame Size: 720×576
  Aspect Ratio: CCIR 601/DV PAL (5:4)
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: PAL – CCIR 601 (720×576)
  Lower Field Dominance
  Editing Timebase: 25
  Compressor: DV-PAL
  Quality: 100%

  Any suggestions are appreciated.

  Alli Parker replied 16 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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