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Aspect ratio changes from shot to shot in same sequence!!!
I need some help from the FCP Gods—
I have a bunch of scenes which were shot in 16:9. They were put on DVCam tape in anamorphic mode. I digitized them and edited them in a sequence.
Then I noticed the sequence wasn’t playing unsquished so I went to the Sequence>settings and chose anamorphic 16:9 which made the sequence nice and wide…
The problem is, now when I cut any of my original clips into the sequence, it cuts the clip in tall and thin (squeezed). In other words the sequence will be playing wide screen and then a shot will appear that is the wrong aspect ratio even though it was shot at the same time as the surrounding shots.
How do I force it to always cut the shots in in unsqueezed anamorphic 16:9.
I threw away all my prefernce files assuming maybe it was some kind of FCP glitch. But that didnt help.
If it matters, I am on FCP HD 5.0.2 Tiger 10.4.2 On Dual 2,o Ghz G5
My sequence settings are: NTSC-CCIR 601/DV
Frame size = 720×480 NTSC DV 3:2Thanks much!!!
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5 Replies
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This is a minor bug in FCP.
Right click on the clips in question in your browser and select item properties then format.
Under the format tab verify if anamorphic has a checkmark by it. IF not add click beside anamorphic to add a checkmark.
This should fix the problem.
Tony Salgado
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MINOR BUG??????
I tried what you said and yes, you’re right it works. The problem is when I select all the clips in the bin at the same time and then right click and change them to anamophic, FCP doesnt change them all (only the actual clip I was on when I right clicked). Which means I need to select EVERY clip manually right click and make it anamorphic- which will take HOURS seeing as this is a feature with about 65 hours worth of dailies, And then after I have done all the dailies bins, I have to go to the individual scene bins and do the exact same thing. THEN assuming I havent been rushed to a hospital with Carpal tunnel syndrome, I need to go through the sequence and find every instance when I had cut in a non-anamorphic clip, match frame it, and recut in the new “modified” version…
And this is a MINOR bug???
I’m curious, what would you consider a major bug?
(Or, is there a more streamlined version you can suggest to making them all recognized as anamorphic?)
Thanks!
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The bug was actually created by you when you failed to either to capture the original clip with anamorphic checked or did not open a new sequence with anamorphic selected.
Basically you have confused FCP.
Sorry dude but it is operator error which created this bug.
I would recommend testing in advance prior to digitizing such a large amount of footage in the future to avoid the pains of learning some of the workflow requirements of FCP.
Tony Salgado
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You can select the anamorphic column the in the browser (scroll to the right in your borwser), but you will have to replace any clips in the timeline.
you can also choose one of the non anamorphisized (I seem making up new language everyday) clips in the time line, put it in the viewer, click on the motion tab, twirl down the distort section, and change the aspect ratio to -33.3. Then Apple-c (copy) that clip in the timeline, select the clips that need fixing and hit option-v (paste attributes) and select the distort tick box and you’ll be good to go.
Jeremy
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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Operator error??? Moi???
But isn’t Final Cut Pro supposed to know what I want before I tell it??? After all, it is an Apple product and Apple always seems to release new, very expensive CPUs just before I need to buy one… Or they clairvoyantly know to wait a month after I have purchased some sortware to release a costly upgrade…
Anyway, thanks for your help Tony. You were right.
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