• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Optimum Sequence Settings

  Posted by Kyle C. on July 21, 2010 at 10:43 pm

  Hey guys, so far everyone on this forum has been very helpful with my previous problems, but I’ve run into yet another issue;
  (I’m making a highlight video and using ripped DVDs for most of the footage).
  I was told by a guy that the DVD’s that I’m ripping (regular DVDs, not Blue Ray or anything) are only NTSC 720 X 480, and that any larger of a size when converting it with MPEG Streamclip (right now I’m using ProRes422) will simply degrade the image more and more.

  BUT, for this highlight video I’m making, I really like the ‘widescreen’ 16:9 look rather than the ‘square’ look of NSTC…so today I switched my Sequence Settings in FCP to HDTV 1280×720.
  Now, the NTSC DVD rips that I’ve imported into FCP obviously do not fit into playhead very well.
  Originally, I had intended to solve this simply by bringing my NTSC sized clips into FCP and use the ‘zoom’ function under the motion tab so it would fit the canvas properly, but even before I did this, when I would play the NTSC 720×480 footage inside of the 1280×720 canvas, I would get a ‘Warning, Dropped Frames” popup window (this occured rather randomly; sometimes it would happen, other times not). Can anyone explain to me what this ‘dropped frames’ means and how this works? I’m assuming its because I’m trying to play a NTSC sized video in the 16:9 widescreen viewer window, but I’m clueless as to what this means and how to get around it.

  I’m guessing my only solution to this problem would be to start converting my clips into 1280×720 in MPEG Streamclip (instead of the old NTSC method) and taking the SLIGHT loss of quality on the chin. Is there any way around this? Sure, i’d like to keep it the highest quality possible, but at the same time, I may be willing to accept a little quality loss if it means that my final video will be in a 16:9 widescreen ratio.

  Michael Gissing replied 15 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Gissing

  July 22, 2010 at 4:26 am

  In SD you can have 16:9. If your clips are SD Prores422, then check you have the anamorphic flag checked on each clip and use a SD ProRes422 anamorphic sequence.

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