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ahhh 1480 and 1920 sizing problems
Hi guys wonder if you can help, I just finished doing a music video with my canon 7d in final cut pro, and I made a slight error. I have an intro into the music video and then I have the music video itself, I did them both on two separate sequences as I wanted the look to be different.
Problem is for some wierd reason the timeline size are set at two different sizes, god knows how I managed that but the intro is 1920 x 1080 and the music video is at 1480 x 1080.
So when I transfered the music video to the intro is squared it off rather than use the whole screen like the into does. To get around this I copied and pasted the intro to the music video sequence thus I guess transforming the 1920 to 1480.
Im outputting this to web but I would like to out put to tv viewing eventually, so 1920 would be ideal. Is there anyway I can transform the 1480 to 1920 from the timeline without squaring it off? The original footage that fcp pulls from is 1920 full HD.
any help would be great cheers
Also can I still get big picture HD on youtube with 1480 x 1080 footage?
Jay
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7 Replies
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– Duplicate your funny 1480×1080 sequence.
– Change the size in the Sequence Setting to 1920×1080.
-Make sure it has SQUARE PIXELS.
-Select all the clips in the sequence and “Remove Attributes: Basic Motion and Distort”.
Should work.
rafael -
Hi Rafael,
Thanks for that, what is meant by square pixels? I filmed on canon 7d which is native h264 and converted to proress 4:2:2, will that be square pixels?
Regards
Jay
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[Jason Laville] “Thanks for that, what is meant by square pixels?”
look up “pixel aspect ratio” in your FCP manual.
Arnie
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1920 x 1080 uses square pixels.
The formats that works 1440, use HD pixels.
Thing of a 16×9 picture printed in paper.
Think that you make 1920 vertical parallel cuts, and 1080 horizontal parallel cuts; The pieces of paper that you will get they will be squared.
If you do the same, with the same picture, but instead of 1920 vertical cuts you make 1440, the pieces of paper you get, are not squared any more; that rectangular shape is the one of the HD pixels.
In the end the picture is the same, but 1920 offers more definition.
Your camera shoot native 1920×1080 Square pixels.
If you convert (Capture) that as 1440 you are degrading your picture.
rafaelPleas have a look to my clip:
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Yeh when I converted I converted to 1920 but for some reason I created a 1480 sequence timeline for the music video and a 1920 timeline for the into, even though all the footage I captured I converted to proress 1920. Ill try doing what you said thanks mate
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Thanks Raf it worked a treat, I just have to redo the titles and letterbox effect as they are all over the place but the image itself is spot on.
Regards
Jay
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Hi Jason,
if you would have done the music sequence 1440×1080 HD pixels (although you would have lost definition) both sequences would have matched. Both are standard HD sizes.
1480 is not standard whatever the kind of pixels you’d set.
rafaelPleas have a look to my clip:
Feedback welcomed
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