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Can’t Letterbox 16X9 sequence
Help! I have an anamorphic sequence that I need to output letterboxed for VHS approval. For two months
now I have outputting rough cuts by dropping my 16 x 9 sequence into a 4 x 3 timeline and its perfect.
But now all of a sudden it doesn’t work with my current sequence (which is a copy of the earlier ones). A
sequence from two weeks ago works fine, but not the current one. I have trashed prefs, but that did nothing.
Any workarounds, bailouts? Thanks!Real Life is Your Best Entertainment Value
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5 Replies
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Did you try exporting a self comtained movie and droping it into a 4×3 seq? or is that what you did?
Trent Mitsuoka
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No I should be able to just take a sequnce within FCP and drop it into the 4 by 3. What I ended up doing late last night was copying the attributes from an earlier letterboxed sequence and copying those onto the new oneA workaround, but successful and I didn’t need to take the time to export.
Real Life is Your Best Entertainment Value
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Weird.
I just had the same thing happen last week. I tried to take a 16×9 sequence and drop it on a 4×3 timeline for an analog tape. It usually works just fine, but this time I couldn’t get it to work no matter what I did. I ended up adding a distort factor to the anamorphic sequence and rendering it. I usually don’t have any problems doing this, but this time it simply refused to work.Strange…
Any insights to this?
Tom -
Is everybody using FCP 5.0.4? I, too, have had the same problem since going with the FCP 5.0.4 upgrade.
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Wayne Carey
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Actually in this case it’s on a machine running 4.5 and OS10.3.7.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Tom
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