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18 fps animation qt w/ lower thirds to correct – help me!
Hey Cow friends,
Today was a difficult day – a seemingly minor request snow balled into a headache for me and I am hoping to get this squared away before i go back into work tomorrow. i am using fcp 6.0.4 btw…
I was given an animation Quicktime with some lower third graphics on it and I was asked to cover up / mask out some of the text…here are the specs of the file:
640×480
square pixel
None field dominance
18 fpsFirst by accident i made an uncompressed 10 bit 29.97 NTSC sequence by accident and realized that it was now 720×486 and that i had to either adjust the sequence settings or start over with a new sequence which matched the mov’s specs.
So I made a color matte using the dropper tool to match the color of the background the lower third rests on, adjusted the matte size to fit just over the text that needed to be covered.
When I then tried to adjust the sequence setting and / or make a new sequence and try again i could not get the frame rate to be 18fps – i kept getting an error message even though i had the sequence set to animation, 640×480, square, none field dom, etc…
So my first problem was that i could not make a sequence that was 18fps is this impossible in FCP?? The second problem is that when I exported the 640×480 qt some of the picture was getting cut off even though the sequence settings were set to match the file (640×480).
Please if anyone can help me figure this out today I will be so greatful and in debt to the kind soul/s who have thoughts and wisdom to bestow.
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2 Replies
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I am not sure if this is of any help as it may solve your problem only partially.
You probably need to turn on “Auto Conform Sequences”. Go to User Preferences, to the tab Editing; the itme is in the lower right corner. Select “Ask”.
Then create a new empty sequence (its settings are irrelevant) and drop your clip at the start. FCP will popup a message that the clip doesn’t match the sequence settings and if it should change sequence settings accordingly. Select “yes”. You will have the right settings of the clip in your sequence, and then you can apply your matte and export a self-contained QT with that settings.Now the reason why I am hesitating is that I don’t know if FCP will recognize your 18fps clip as 18fps on import. It may interpret it as 25 fps. I don’t know how to change that.
But perhaps you may simply go along as if that frame rate is irrelevant and when you export using Quicktime Conversion you can reapply the 18fps framerate… Hope it will work!Jaap
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If you have AE, Combustion, Motion or Shake, I’d use one of those to do this.
Arnie
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