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Black bars on side of 1280×720 video in FCP
Hi All-
I am working on a project in Final Cut Pro and am having some problems. I have a bunch of TIFFs that I am trying to make a 16:9 1280×720 video with. It seems no matter what I do, I can’t get rid of the black bars on the sides. My sequence settings are as follows:Frame Size: 1280×720
Aspect Ratio: HDTV 720p (16:9)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square
Anamorphic 16:9 is checked
Field Dominance: Lower (Even)
Editing Timebase: 29.97The image in Viewer fills the pallette. When I look at the same image in the Canvas I see black bars on each side.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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4 Replies
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Not sure if you should have anamorphic checked. Try unchecking this first. What settings do you have in the Motion tab/ distort. You should be able to adjust both height and width to fill the frame correctly.
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Thanks for the response. I do need to have anamorphic checked, otherwise the text that is on my image is squished. I don’t think I want to adjust the height or width. My files are 1280×720 TIFFs, and the file I am trying to create is 1280×720. I am guessing that somewhere along the way my sequence must be thinking it is wider than 1280.
Any other thoughts?
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My guess: 1280×720 TIFFS used in a square pixel sequence are *not* anamorphic, why make them fit into an anamorphic sequence? DVCPro 720P, for example, is actually 960×720. You select anamorphic and it spreads out to 1280. And why do you have it set with lower field first? Why have
*any* fields? The TIFFs aren’t interlaced, do you need interlaced output? As for the text not being correct, how was the text created, at what size?
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What codec are you using and your field dominance should be set to none.
The anamorphic box should be UNchecked as your sequence is not anamorphic, it’s 16×9. Big difference.
after fixing the above things try adding a new tiff to your timeline (ignore the others for now), and you should be good. If the new tiff looks good, your timeline is set up correctly and you will have to change all your other tiffs in the sequence to match the new tiff. Copy and pasting attributes will work if you haven’t put any motion effects on the other tiffs.
Jeremy
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