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Turn off auto-scale for pictures?
Hello,
I have an annoying problem- I’m working on a video that includes a lot of power point slides and when I add them to the time line it scales them to 112% to fit the window. I’d like to turn this option off.
I exported the ppt slides as 640×480 png files from Powerpoint and at 100% in the timeline, they are perfect (I need them to fill the title safe area only). However, when I place them in the timeline, FCP autoscales them to 112% to fit the entire window (placing important info outside title safe). I dont want to manually change every slide back down to 100% scale.
I’m sure the solution is something basic, but I haven’t been able to find it. Any ideas?
Thank you thank you for your support!
Josh
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I’m pretty sure that’s in the Timeline Options in the Systems Settings.
Or it’s in the User Prefs. One of those two places you’ll find a check box that you want to turn off about automatically scaling the images in a timeline.
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yup, Final Cut Pro menu > User Preferences >> Editing tab …. last checkbox option on the right is “Always scale clips to sequence size”
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Thanks Andy, I knew it was in one of those, just didn’t have a system in front of me.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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If you already have a bunch of clips in your timeline you can globally change them all to 100%. Double-click the first and in the Motion tab change the scale from 112% to 100%. Then select & copy that first clip. Next, select the remaining clips and Paste Attributes. You’ll get the Paste Attributes box. Check Basic Motion & OK. All the remaining clips will be adjusted in scale to match the first.
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Thanks Andy I had the same problem!
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I have a similar problem I’ve been trying to work out.
I work in the newsroom at a television station where our news switcher is digital standard def, but not high def. Our newest camera is the new JVC HM700, as we needed a replacement camera and didn’t see the sense in buying any more standard def cameras. The switcher will not be moved to HD for at least a couple of years. We’re an all final cut shop, and our playout system takes DV files for the newscast (4:3, obviously) I need to figure out how to get footage shot on this camera to air, meeting these conditions:
The 16:9 footage from the HM700 needs to be cropped to 4:3 using a center cut. We’ve chosen center cut over letterbox because our graphics department will still be producing 4:3 graphics.
All our edit stations will keep their current sequence preset default of NTSC-DV 4:3. I have turned autoconform sequence off, so that anyone cutting footage in a new timeline will not be asked if they’d like to chance the sequence preset to XDCAM (which our playout system will not accept).
I’ve determined that the best scale setting for the footage is about 75%, so I want to scale all footage to that level automatically when it’s placed in the timeline. Right now, it defaults to fitting the source media completely in the frame, essentially letterboxing it. I’ve unchecked “Always scale clips to sequence size” and I still get the exact same result.
So with all that background, I’m asking if anyone knows how to set Final Cut to always scale 720p60 XDCAM footage to 75% in a 4:3 NTSC-DV timeline? I know that I can have someone always set one clip and then paste the attribute to all the rest, but this isn’t a production environment and I’d really like to find a way to have FCP do this automatically. Again, I’m going to have 1 edit station dedicated to this camera, so if it ends up creating an environment where I might have to change some settings BACK in order to properly work with standard def footage, that’s not a problem. All the rest of the stations will stay “standard def only” stations. (we’re actually only running FCP 5 in our newsroom anyway, so we’ll only have 1 station running FCP 6 to handle the XDCAM stuff anyway).
If anyone has any answers, thanks.
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Thank you, John Fisher!
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