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Change video to fit a specific size
I’m moderately new to the FCP/Compressor workflow, so I apologize in advance if this is a simple, silly question.
I am being asked to take a video that is currently a 1280×720 and do two things:
1) Scale it down to size with 408px on the vertical axis
2) Then crop the left/right sides of the video so it is 337px on the horizontal axis.I know that this seems odd to trim the video, it certainly seems that way to me. But I am tasked to do it nonetheless. It is placing in an InDesign document for an iPad app. No matter how I enter the info into Compressors Geometry tab, it does not seem to work. Any help would be appreciated.
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5 Replies
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Unfortunately, we don’t have that in the office as of right now. I can probably get it, but not before the deadline has come and gone for this project. Sorenson Squeeze is also something that is supposedly coming, but again, not before deadlines.
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Hi Brian,
I would export your video with it’s native dimension,(1280×720) and then import that .mov into your FCP project. Then make a new sequence with the custom dimensions you need. Drag that .mov into the custom sequence, render it out and you should be good to go.
James Disch
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That’s not a bad idea, but that crops the vertical as well. I need ti have the video scale down to match what is needed on the vertical axis, then crop in to match what is needed on the horizontal axis.
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Not at all. Might have to see if we have that and can try to dive in
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[James Disch] “I would export your video with it’s native dimension,(1280×720) and then import that .mov into your FCP project. Then make a new sequence with the custom dimensions you need. Drag that .mov into the custom sequence, render it out and you should be good to go.”
Using only FC, I would do it right this way.
I would export the final movie to 8/10b Uncompressed.
With that weird size some compressed codecs could cause some problems on the edges.
rafael
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