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auto-scale stills based on width
I am working on a project with a large number of stills of various sizes.
I would like to find a way to drop them in my timeline and have fcp auto-scale the still so that the width fits the width of my sequence (rather than the height, which it automatically does now).
The reason for this is that I am using a large number of stills in the portrait aspect ratio, and I will be cropping them to fit the landscape aspect ratio of my sequence.
I understand that parts of my image would be getting cut off, but since most of my stills are in the portrait aspect ratio, I would much rather have FCP auto size based on the width, then I can simply reposition the portions of the shot that I wish to see….rather than having to resize each image individually via the scale slider on the motion tab.
The width of all of my stills exceeds that of my sequence, so I wouldn’t actually be blowing anything up, just cropping.
Make sense?
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If you have Photoshop, you can create an automation to this for you. You can run the automation on all of your photos and then leave and let Photoshop resize the images to fit your defined width. Then when you import into FCP, the images will be the correct size. To the best of my knowledge, FCP just sized them to fit the screen based on height OR width. Photoshop can automate the process.
Alan
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