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4:3 to 16:9??
I’ve gone through tutorials to get the basic rundown of Final Cut Pro 7, and I know the features to Conform to Sequence and Scale to Sequence. My current problem is I dont know a quick and easy way to get my 4:3 clips to completely stretch the length AND width of the Sequence to completely fit the 16:9 frame. Can anyone tell me a quick and easy way to format my clips to do this? I realize this will stretch my videos but thats what im intending to do. I’m using a lot of SD clips along with HD clips in my 16:9 video project. Any tips would be greatly appreciate guys! Thanks!
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Yesterday’s post might help. Searching this forum will often answer such questions
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1057917
Also check the manual about the distort settings in the motion tab.
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That link didn’t really help my problem. I did download the plugin but it didnt stretch my clip to fit the full length of the viewing space. There is still a black border on the left and right side of the clip due to it being 4:3 in a 16:9 project format. All I need to know is an easy way to get the clip to stretch to all four corners of the viewing space. Am I making any sense? I know my editing terminology isn’t too sharp. I’m just so used to Sony Vegas that the Pan/Crop window made doing this a complete breeze. In FCP im completely dumbfounded.
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So you didn’t check the manual on distort settings then.
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Just zoom in to the clip until it fills the frame. Double click the clip in the timeline, then go to the Motion tab in the Viewer window and scale up to about 133%.
You can then copy that clip and paste the same motion settings to every other clip in the timeline.
Best,
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Thanks Alex, I’ll have to try this when I get home later today. This may solve my problem. I still feel very limited in customizing the viewing space. I’m so used to “Event Pan/Crop” feature in Sony Vegas. It was something so simple and made it seem like a no-brainer for every editor to have… but I guess not. If any of you guys were familiar with this feature that Vegas has you’d probably have a better understanding of why im struggling. It was so easy to use and very customizable. Was hoping FCP had something like this
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Once you’ve set up your aspect ratio correction (ARC) using the motion tab you can save it as a “motion favorite”, found in the Effects pull down menu. As well as being available in the pull down menu it’s also available as a key stroke combination allowing you to quickly bash through your sequence using just the keyboard. You can save up to 9 different motion favorites which is great for differing head room settings, re-size amounts etc. I’ve actually re-mapped my 1 to 9 keys (above the Qwerty keys) as motion favorites with zero as “make motion favorite”. This is one of the few features of FCP which (in my opinion) speeds up work flow compared to other non-linear edit suites… or even some tape suites I’ve worked in!
Hope that helps!
Scarab
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Thank you Joey! This may really help me! So far many things in FCP are coming naturally to me because there are many similarities to Vegas and FCP (that I find atleast) BUT there are still so many things that FCP either does backwards or just does in a complete different fashion. I don’t remember seeing an Aspect Ratio Correction in the motion tab but I must have missed it. I wish I had my MacBook Pro with me to experiment and see but I guess i’ll have to wait till im off work. Saving it as a motion favorite is really going to help my cause.
SEPERATE QUESTION!!: Without starting another topic, how do you remove audio from an imported SD clip from the timeline completely? Since it was imported with the clip naturally it’s bound to the video clip. So once I select the audio clip it selects it’s bound video clilp and I want to remove the audio completely without just muting that audio section of the timeline. I know this is an easy fix it just works differently than Vegas it appears.
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If the audio is already ‘married’ to the imported clip; select the clip(s) and unlink them (cmd-L) and simply delete just the audio in the timeline.
Peter
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Thank you so much!
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Just to clarify the aspect ratio of the footage in the timeline is converted using a combination of “Scale” and “aspect ratio” (look in the “Distort” twirly) controls found in the motion tab. The 4:3 to 16:9 ARC is outlined by Alex Elkins earlier in this thread – there isn’t an “ARC” button as such in the motion tab.
Scarab
Mac Pro Octo 2.26 16Gb Ram (Purchased Sept ’09)
SL 10.1.6
ATI 4870
Kona LHe
640GB Startup
1TB Internal Storage
2TB SCSI Raid Storage
Tangent Wave
FCP Suite 3 (FCP 7.0, Color 1.5)
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