aspect ratio/widescreen

[Marco Solorio]

Right-click the sequence in the FCP browser. Then select Item Properties and then Item Properties again. When the properties window appears, uncheck the Ananmorphic option.

Marco Solorio

[Coulter Mitchell]

That worked perfectly. The canvas is no longer widescreen. Thank you! But…the project within the canvas is still “stretched” and doesn’t fit the box because it is too thin and long. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Marco Solorio]

You can double-click the clip from the time-line to view it in the Viewer. Then click “Motion” tabe in the Viewer. See if your Aspect Ratio setting is not set to zero under the Distort section.

If it’s a sub-sequence, then right-click and “Open in Viewer”. Then do the same as above.

Marco Solorio

[Coulter Mitchell]

Thanks! Do you know of any shortcuts to do this? Also, any idea WHY this happened? Also, why in the viewer is the image perfectly fine, but then in the canvas the image is the same but it’s on a widescreen format, so there’s black boxes on either side?

[Nick Price]

16:9 isnt a setting thats connected to the project, its connected to the actual clip or sequence. So when you import a clip into the browser, look along the headings and see if anamorphic (16:9) is ticked. If it is when you open it up it will be 16:9. if it isnt then it will open up 4:3. Tick the box to change.

Same with sequence settings. If you’re default sequence setting is 4:3 then all of your sequences will be 4:3, you can change them after, or set your default to be 16:9 if you work more in that aspect.

Once a clip is in a timeline, and looks wrong, then double click to open it up, and go to ‘Apect’ in ‘Motion’ tab, and change between’0′ and ‘33.33’ depending on if it is streched or squeezed.

nick