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Anamorphic Madness
We’re editing a 30 minute industrial.
All of the footage is uncompressed SD anamorphic 16×9.
We had the clips all interpreted as 16×9 after import.
The sequence was set with 16×9 checked.
Everything was going fine until about half way through some
clips would letterbox on the monitor instead of fill the screen
in the 16×9 ratio. Another time a clip would look 4×3 squeezed.All of these would look fine in the viewer, when inserted
to the timeline they would cause a problem and show up green on the realtime status (needing rendering but willing to play in realtime)The only way to get it fixed was to uncheck the 16×9 setting on the sequence. Then work some more until it behaves odd again, then re-enable the 16×9 setting on the sequence.
I know this sounds really strange but thats exactly whats going on here. Thankfully I’m almost done and its been working right without randomly going askew like it was earlier.
any thoughts?
Is this a FCP 5.x bug that hopefully 6 doesn’t have?
Am I crazy?
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4 Replies
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Hmmm sounds like a similiar problem i get some times..I usually select the clips in the timeline and hit command+option v and check distort and motion and usually th clip rights itself…HTH
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[Borjis] “Am I crazy?”
No, but perhaps someone forgot to choose the anamorphic preset between capture sessions?
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I setup and double checked everything.
All was in order.
The edit was done with a single 30 minute long clip that was copied from a firewire drive.
The file is anamorphic SD uncompressed 10-bit.
And the only thing to remedy the weirdness was checking or unchecking the 16×9 button on the setting of the sequence.
good to know I’m not the only one.
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SOmetimes, if you capture using one machine and import into another project, the anamorphic tick box gets lost. It’s easy to retick the anamorphic column (on the clip) and away you go. Another way is if the clip does end up going letterbox when it’s in the timeline, simply remove attributes (control-click on the clip) and choose distort.
Jeremy
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