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Clips won’t stay anamorphic
I am assisting a feature on FCP 6.0.5 with anamorphic DVCAM dailies sent through Cinema Tools to reverse telecine. I inherited this show from another assistant and at first thought I was having trouble with clips that he ingested, as they were not using anamorphic sequences or ingesting anamorphic. I conformed all sequences and clips to anamorphic, however Cinema Tools removes the anamorphic flag when it reverses telecine. Fine, I just make each clip anamorphic as I go through the dailies. We also had to put widescreen mattes on early clips as telecine did not matte the footage properly. However, when we moved sequence between our two systems some of the clips with the widescreen matte would revert to non-anamorphic in the timeline causing the mattes to squash, so I would have to go through those scenes and re-check the anamorphic box in SOME clips each time we moved sequences. I assumed this was a quirk of the way the previous assistant had digitized the footage, however re-digitizing those tapes only partly fixed the problem. Some clips still unpredictably squash the mattes when we move sequences. Upon further investigation, I’ve come to realize that a lot of our clips aren’t staying anamorphic in the timeline… we were only noticing the ones that have the widescreen effect on them because it changes. All other clips still play back correctly. Any insight on this problem? I’m going to go crazy if I have to manually fix the same clips several times a day for the next few months. Thanks!
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Tried “conform to sequence” option?
Michael Cheung
Editor/Assistant Editor/DIT
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Actually, “conform to sequence” seems to remove the anamorphic setting from some clips and add distortion to others, resulting in pillarboxing. The sequence is very clearly set to anamorphic, so this behavior doesn’t make sense. Gradually, more clips seem to be matching back as non-anamorphic and cutting in pillarboxed. This is not happening with all clips, but seems to be slowly happening with more of them as time goes on. Any thoughts?
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