contrasting filming formats …

[Brendan Tyler]

thanks, i know that

but i would appreciate some technical advice or insight

[Steve Eisen]

User error. Know your equipment before shooting important events.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

To start, read the manual. Both the camera and FCP. Get some education. You simply can not pick up a camera, press record and call yourself a professional.

Practice, practice, practice before recording important events.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Brendan Tyler]

wow !

thanks again Steve

not only are you not being helpful

but you’re now being condescending …

good for you

[Shane Ross]

Issue: You have two formats of 16:9…letterboxed 4:3 and anamorphic. What I would do, is make the main format the letterboxed format, and adjust the anamorphic to fit. Otherwise you are blowing up the letterboxed footage by 33% and it looks HORRID.

Shane

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[Brendan Tyler]

hello Shane

thanks for that, very helpful

i will do that in future

i was just wondering what must of happened between switching the tapes

as the first one was spot on, and the next was differently formatted

thanks again

[Richard Sanchez]

The only thing I can think of, is if you possibly switched it over within the menu of the camera in between tapes. Those menus can be fairly deep so it’s not likely, but certainly not unheard of. Likewise, what FCP settings did you use to capture? Are you editing in HDV, or did you bring it in as DV? It’s entirely possible that the footage on the tapes are fine and match each other correctly, but they were brought into FCP incorrectly.

I’m not familiar with the Z1’s menus, so unfortunately I can’t tell you specifically in what menu to look.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Brendan Tyler]

hello & thank you very much for that, Richard

i will take a look at the menu once again

and pay particular attention to the FCP importing options

thanks

[Joey Burnham]

[Shane Ross] “What I would do, is make the main format the letterboxed format, and adjust the anamorphic to fit.”

I would do the same. Just leave the other footage alone and when you bring in the 16×9 footage (the full frame stuff) you can change the aspect ratio under the motion tab to -33. This will squish down the footage 33% on the y-axis. It should match the other letterboxed footage you have.

You will need to render this footage eventually, but you should be able to work with it in real time until the final layoff.

Joey

[Brendan Tyler]

hello Joey

many thanks for that

you guys have been great !