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sequence settings/capture settings incompatibility
Hi again,
I posted yesterday but have not heard from anyone. I have a little more info, though, so I’ll try again. (Probably saw 2 replies, but they weren’t replies; they were from me, adding info to my post.)
I’ve been recapturing some clips to hi-res using media manager, and I realized that I screwed up with my capture settings/sequence settings.
My original media was captured from NTSC mini DV tapes. Pixel aspect: NTSC – CCIR60; frame size: 720 x 480. 29.97 fps.
Now, in the sequences as I’ve been editing them, the sequence settings are 320 x 240 (multimedia large 4:3). Pixel aspect ratio: square.
Ugh.
So now when I try to use media manager to bump up my my until now low-res/offline clips to hi-res, it’s not working…even if the sequence settings are what I want (NTSC, 720 x 480, etc.) The images in the canvas are all wonky–a bit pixelated and squooshed and small.
Any ideas on what I can do to fix this? My friend told me to highlight the now hi-res clip in the timeline, right-click it, and do “remove attributes.” It works sometimes. The problem is, I need some of the attributes because I edited them that way. Removing them screws up my edits.
Many thanks in advance for any help/guidance.
Best,
Marisa -
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Make a new sequence that matches your clip. If you are using FCP6 or 7 all you need to do is drag one clip to the timeline and it will ask you if you want to change the seq setting. You say yes.
Then do to the edited timeline, select all, paste this into the new and correct sequence. Things will look wrong. with everything still selected right click and do to Remove Attributes, then check scale and distort (if distort is not grayed out). This should get you back to the correct looking footage.
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Hi Michael,
Thanks so much for the wise counsel. I think I did what you said:
I have FCP 5, so I:
Created a new sequence with correct settings.
Pasted my clip into the new sequence (it looked wonky, as expected), highlighted it, hit “remove attributes.” The only options to check are distort and basic motion. When I clicked both, it fixed the size for all except two little clips, but there’s still pixelation/pulldown. Also, there are clips in my film that require motion effects, so if I remove the motion, they get screwed up.Hmm…
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Sorry scale is within basic motion. Those are the only 2 things you needed to remove to solve your timeline issue.
If you are not viewing the video on an external monitor you are not really seeing what you have. Forcing the canvas to 100% give a more accurate display of the footage but you have to view it externally to judge quality. But your footage is what it is. You are now using the footage as it is captured.
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Thanks, Michael.
For some reason I thought I always had to use media manager to recapture clips and get them to hi-res, but I guess this is not the case.
So I need to redo all my motion effects all over again, then?
What’s frustrating is that I’ve used media manager and bumped some of these clips to hi-res before with no problem. I wonder why it’s going haywire now…
Thanks again,
Marisa -
Media manager for offline/online editing is used if you capture your source tapes at low res, you edit that recapture just the material within the edit at full res. It sounds like you captured your source tapes at full res (DV) and then just edited them on a low res timeline (which is your first problem) there is no reason to to that at all, you are not saving save or time.
If I’m understand it correctly you just have a very flawed workflow. If you have captured the media as offline 320×240 then yes you need to media manage.
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