Basic FCP Sequence Settings question for 1080 footage w/ 7D

[Walter Soyka]

[Shane Ross] “Ignore what QT says…no one understands why it does that. Know that what you have in FCP is right.”

Quicktime is reporting the clean aperture specified for the video file. I think this can be safely ignored with most digital HD.

FCP uses the production aperture (full raster), and Quicktime displays the production aperture on movies from FCP by default. If you see gunk on the edges, you can set the movie to display using the clean aperture in Quicktime, cropping the edges off.

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[Montica Pes]

Could someone answer me this related question: If I am shooting with a 7D, what easy set-up selection should I be selecting, given that I am doing 24p 1080?

I simply say, “Yes” whenever FCP7 asks me to match the clip’s sequence settings, and I had to figure out that when I was copying part of a sequence to another sequence that I needed to hit remove attributes “distort” but I’d like to have the RIGHT thing selected.

Any ideas? I know you guys know.

🙂 Monty

[Shane Ross]

[Montica Pes] “Could someone answer me this related question: If I am shooting with a 7D, what easy set-up selection should I be selecting, given that I am doing 24p 1080?”

You SHOULD be converting your footage to ProRes 422 first. Well, second. The first thing you should be doing is backing up your card…

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[Montica Pes]

No, I am converting to ProRes422 (LT) and backing up…but the “easy set-up” selection only give you DVCPRO and HDV set-up specs. So I just selected something and I’m letting FCP’s big brain tell me, “We’ll match the clip and the sequence settings up for you little brain.” It bugs me.

[Montica Pes]

Sean–
Just watched your tutorial and it is extremely helpful. I was using mpeg streamclip and not using a logging bin–so I never went through the logging process in the way you describe. Very helpful. Thank you.