convert 16:9 to 4:3 with cropped sides

[David Roth weiss]

Open a new timeline. Change the settings to DV. Copy and paste everything from the old timeline into the new one, and do not let FCP cahnge the settings to match. Change the compressor in Sequence>>Settings to ProRes. Reposition any shots, titles, graphics as necessary, then render.

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[Lawrence Robbin]

thanks, David, I’ll try it!

LR

[Lawrence Robbin]

So I followed the process listed earlier by David. I still have a 16:9 aspect ratio. Should I have also – in addition to changing the setting to DV, etc. – gone to motion for each clip and enlarged each clip to “fill up” to the 4:3 framing?

LR

[David Roth weiss]

[Lawrence Robbin] “Should I have also – in addition to changing the setting to DV, etc. – gone to motion for each clip and enlarged each clip to “fill up” to the 4:3 framing?”

Affirmative Lawrence. Sorry I left that step out.

BTW, you can scale-up one clip and then copy and paste the attributes to all other clips if you wish.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Lawrence Robbin]

That did it… looks good!
thx
Lawrence

LR

[Bob Cole]

Lawrence, assuming this video has your clients in it, there is one more step: If the clients are slightly chubby, and somewhat gullible, then use the entire width of the 16:9 frame, and scale up the height only to fill the 4:3. They’ll be your clients forever, because nobody has ever made them look so skinny.

I’m surprised that DRW, who lives in Los Angeles, didn’t know that. Or, maybe everybody in LA is just naturally thin.

Bob C