• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  4:3 on 16:9 workspace

  Posted by Lili Lab on February 6, 2006 at 8:42 pm

  Dear All,

  hi I am working with a project that involves both HDCAM and regular SD footage that will be offline edited in DV 48khz and then onlined in a HDCAM environment. The images will consist of floating windows/ multiple small sequences on a black canvas workspace. They will then be projected.

  The SD footage was not shot with HDCAM in mind, so the cropping has to be “pan and scan”, or tailored per shot. I know I should be able to keep this in FCP, esp since the sequences will not fill the entire frame. I do however want them to have a guide: so that when they are working in a 4:3 space, they will know the boundaries of the new 16:9 space when onlined. I’ve decided not to use the 16:9 anomorphic box – it distorts the image, *this is a 16:9 that’s stretched right*.

  —it would be great if FCP made a guide the way the title and action safe areas are, but there’s no such thing, and I can set this using my preferences right?

  Initially I thought of 2 ways to deal with this;
  1. generating a map (my own guide area made in photoshop black and white) and laying it under the clips; reducing the opacity of the clips to find out where my boundaries are

  2. just telling him to edit at home on a 1920 X 1080 sequence. with a square pixel, lower field dominance, and dv compressor.

  Problem during tests

  test for # 1. the map doesn’t correspond with the empty space/ black areas on my HDSDI monitor when looking at the onlined version.

  test for # 2. the 1900 X 1080 takes forever to render — without any additional effects an hour for a number of minutes.

  I’m sure someone has encountered this problem before, what should I do?

  *And I definitely have to ask them to change their pixel aspect ratio from CCR601 to square right?

  thanks in advance,
  lili

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