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auto attributes on import
I’m working with lots of After Effects files at present, and importing them nto FCP. However FCP keeps changing them – sometimes scaling clips, sometimes adjusting aspect ratio, sometimes adding a shift fields filter. I’m happy with the way I made the files and don’t want them altered, and its a right pain having to go through all these files individually checking them and removing unwanted alterations. Is there any way of turning off this ‘feature’ does anyone know? I don’t like so-called ‘intelligent’ software features – listen up HAL, that’s supposed to be my role!
Cheers,
Ken.
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FCP changes nothing. The matter is how interpret the fotage. In FC you have not an “Interprete footage” function like in AE, so you must look in the Brownser. In former versions of FC the footage always got scaled to the sequence setting. In FCS2 this is an option (preferences).
About the “Shift-fields”, FC only set it when needed. And this is great when you are mixing in the same sequence Upper-first and lower-first footage. If FC do not set the Shift-fields you should check the field order of each clip that you drag to the time-line and set it manually when needed. Ugly things where you forgot to set it.
rafael -
Thanks,
I’ll look in preferences to disable the auto-scaling.
As to the shift fields filter – my media is animation lower field first with matte, my time line is PAL DV25 – also lower field first, so the auto application of shift fields seems unnecessary. As I have so many clips I’ll check the remove atrributes command and see if this works in the browser.
Cheers,
Ken.
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Ken,
The “Shift fields” should be only applied by FC when you drag a clip to a t-line with the opposite field order. If your clips are Lower-first and your t-line Lower first too, you shouldn’t be getting the “Shift-fields” in the clips that you set in the t-line.
I’ve been having that issue last year with the BLACKMagic card. FC sets the Shift-fields and also the video card did the correction. So in the end I was getting two shifts of field and off course bad rendering. I had to take the Shift-fields filter away and them let the video card do the correction.
rafael
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