• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Problems Setting up 640×360 Project/Sequence

  Posted by Steve Crow on March 9, 2008 at 9:16 pm

  I am having trouble setting up a FCP 5 project so that I can edit and export in 640×360 (16:9) 24fps format. The basic issue is that I am getting letterboxing of about 80 pixels wide on the right and left side of the video.

  I have 80 pixel wide letterboxing visible on both the right and left sides of the canvas window too and when I try to export the video at 640×360 – that letterboxing remains.

  My MacBook Pro was taking forever to render my clips at their full 1920x1080i resolution which I captured from my HV20…so I thought I would try exporting those clips out at 640×360 and then re-importing them into a new timeline set up at 640×360 so that, hopefully, the rendering and editing wouldn’t be as demanding on my machine.

  I tried setting up a new project and sequence setting and I think here’s where I made my mistake.

  My Project Settings are (customized)

  Frame Size: 640×360
  Editing Timeline 24fps
  Field Dominance NOne
  Pixel Aspect Ratio HD (1440 x 1080)
  Anamorphic: 16:9 Off
  Compressor: HDV 720p24
  Millions of Colors

  My Sequence settings are:

  Frame Size 640 x 360
  Aspect Ratio Custom (16:9)
  Pixel Aspect Ratio (1440 x 1080)
  Field Dominance: None
  Compressor: HDV 720p24

  I appreciate any assistance you can offer. Thanks!

  Steve

  Steve Crow replied 18 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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