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can I use widescreen (anamorphic) footage with 4:3 footage in the same timeline in FCP
Hello Everyone
hope you are all staying cool
I’m almost embarrassed to ask this but since I haven’t shot or worked with widescreen footage in several years (2001 to be exact) I need to ask
ok here’s the situation:
I’m working with footage I shot back in 2001 I shot it widescreen and I want to edit this footage into a sequence with regular 4:3 footage
first of all I need to figure out what preset I capture the anamorphic footage with in FCP, I found the anamorphic dv preset and used that , the footage was widescreen in the log capture preview area but as I captured the footage it “squished” not sure if it will look that way when I put it on the time line
assuming I captured the footage correctly, how do I get the footage to maintain it’s correct aspect ratio in a timeline when I want to edit in footage that shot 4:3 as well?
I’m using fcp5.1.1 on a powermac g5 with a 2ghz processor and 2 gig of ram
thanks in advance for any help
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2 Replies
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Capture it in normal 4:3, and when you edit in to the timeline, change the aspect ratio to -33.33 under the distort property of the motion tab. This should give you a letterboxed image. If that’s what you want, leave it (that means the rest of your 4:3 footage will require a widescreen mask). If this isn’t what you want, you can then scale up the image so that it fills the 4:3 window and crop off the sides (kind of like a center cut).
Make sense?
Jeremy
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Why not just capture it anamorphic and let FCP set it to letterbox in the 4×3?
travis ballstadt
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