16×9 footage craziness, argh!

[Videomansf]

Depending on how many clips you have this might take a while. You need to double click on every clip on the timeline one by one and in the viewer go to motion tab, then down to distort, aspect ratio. You should see that its set to something like 33.3. Set this value to 0 and all should be good.

VMSF

[Paul Coull]

Hi,

Don’t know if it would be easier to create a new sequence with anamorphic set and drag the other sequence inside and stretch it. Again it depends on how many clips are in your sequence.

regards
grafxflow

grafx that flow!

[David Roth weiss]

P.,

The FCP manual clearly states that changes to the sequence settings applied after there is footage in the sequence will not apply. In the future, you should open a new sequence, change the seq. settings, then paste the material from the seq. with the wrong settings into the one with the proper settings.

DRW

[Projektor]

Thanks for all your help. It looks like I will have to stretch and render the entire sequence. I still cannot understand, however, why FCP would not treat anamorphic clips as such when changing an existing sequence’s settings – weird shortcoming in my opinion.

peace,
p.

[Carsten Orlt]

you can also change the first clips distort setting as videomansf suggested – copy – select all other clips in your seq. and paste attributes with only distort selected in the ‘what to paste’ menu.
only catch: if on any of your clips there is a distort setting now other then the 16-9 to 4-3 compensation of 33.33 you’ll loose that.

[Projektor]

I ended up creating a nested sequence and distorting it to fit the 16×9 ratio. I wonder how much noticeable quality loss I can expect from this process.

p.

[Jeremy Doyle]

Select all in your sequence > control click > remove attributes > distort. Done. No rendering need if its an anamorphic timeline. We do this a lot as different editors touch projects and forget to set timelines to anamorphic instead of 4×3.