Canvas Size

[Nick Price]

Bones,
just so you know FCP doesnt alter aspect ratio when importing. You can tell it how you want to view each bit of footage after (or before) you capture. You can do this either in the browser by ticking ‘anamorphic’. Or if you have already put clips in a sequence, you double click and in the motion tab, change the distort/aspect ratio to one of 0, 33.33, -33.33, depending on what ‘shape’ you want you image. Play around with the setting…..

By ‘removing attributes’, you were removing the aspect ratio that FCP had automatically put on the clip by you trying to put an ‘anamorphic clip into a 4:3 (non-anamorphic) sequence. You can also ‘paste attribures’, i.e change the aspect ration for one clip, copy clip(apple-c), select your clips, then paste attributes (alt-v), and that will copy various settings to you new clips.

cheers
nick