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changing the images on a 4×3 sequence to 16×9 without distortion
Thanks for reading. I am using FCP HD on a MAC G5. I have a 16×9 project which has many clips captured as 16×9, which show up in the viewer window as full images…..true 16×9.
I have a sequence, (which has some editing done in it) with these same clips. However, the sequence, and thus the canvas show up as letterboxed images.
I would love to know that what I have cut already can be viewed at 16×9 and not letterboxed 4×3.
I am going to hold off on cutting more until I know I’m not wasting my time (if I have to do it all over again anyway).So here is the question……Now that the sequence has been set up, and the clips are already in it, is there any way to convert the settings to 16×9? When I have done this in the settings menu, it actually stretches the letterboxed images to the width of the 16×9 frame, leaving a “letterbox stripe” at the top and bottom. It seems that it only wants to pull the images wider, and not vertically. I actually dont want stretching, but rather want to see my true 16×9 imges in the project sortof snap into their correct aspect ratio when the sequence setting changes. Is this possible?
I have tried to make a new sequence, with 16×9 settings in place, and then copy and paste the contents of my original sequence into the new one. Same results. But the clips from my browser do work in this sequence as they should…..full 16×9 images. I’m afraid that maybe the only way to get the desired results is to recut the project from scratch in a new sequence. I’d like to avoid this if possible.
I would really appreciate any insight from any of you FCP gurus out there. Ive been editing for a while, but am pretty new to Final Cut. So far so good, but there are always bumps in the proverbial road.
Thanks,
George
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If I’m reading this right,I think what you need to do is to remove the attributes of these 16:9 images while they are in an anamorphic sequence. When you put them in a 4:3 sequence, they were “distorted” so you need to “undistort them”.
Jerry
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Jerry,
You’re a wizard. You read it right. I copied and pasted the clips into a new 16×9 sequence. They came up as before-distorted. When I looked at the menu item for “remove attributes” it was greyed out. But a control-click on the first clip, and I could bring up the remove attributes prompt. I had to actually check “distort”- i thought I’d have to uncheck it, but it was unchecked. I copied and pasted this attribute to all the clips and BAM! There it was. A few minutes of re-rendering, and I’m back on my feet. Thanks Jerry!
George
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