• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Working with 4:3 footage

  Posted by Vincent Strader on December 1, 2010 at 11:21 pm

  Been dealing with 16:9 for so long I know I’m forgetting something very basic here when changing up the settings for a project, and I can’t help my co-worker with his technical dilemma.

  He had somebody hand him some footage to create a simple 4:3 video for a meeting.

  Here’s the skinny:

  Importing 4:3 SD video into FCP7

  Sequence settings DVNTSC 48 khz

  The footage was squeezed in the viewer window and the canvas window.

  It had the black bars to the side.

  When exported , the same settings were used DVNTSE 48 khz

  But the end product was even more squished to the side than it was in the project.

  And the canvas and viewer windows are both set to a 16:9 view.

  We trashed the User Settings, and FCP Plist , opened up a brand new project with the same settings above.

  Then copied the time line out of the older project and pasted it in the new project hoping the video would go back to it’s 4:3 setting.

  But it was the same results.

  Thanks for any reminders

  Michael Sacci replied 15 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vincent Strader

  December 1, 2010 at 11:26 pm

  I just remembered something that I should have known, I just do it all at rote so much I didn’t even think about it.

  When I work with 16:9 and throw 4:3 in the project, I normally just export the project via QT Conversion or the QT Movie with the 16:9 settings and the 4:3 video stays the same within that project, just with the black bars to the side.

  I just told him that, and he’s gonna mess with it later.

  However if you all have any other MORE SMARTER suggestions, please let me know.

  Thanks,
  Vinnie

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  Michael Sacci

  December 1, 2010 at 11:31 pm

  Your setting are wrong, if your viewers are 16:9 your sequence is 16:9.

  If you are using FCP7 create a new sequence, drag a clip into the empty timeline, it will ask if you want to change the settings to match, click yes. If the clip is 4:3 the sequence will be 4:3.

  NOTE: changing settings like Easy Setup in FCP are for any NEW sequences, they will not change any that have already been created.

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