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copy and pasting sequence problems please help
I wanted to see if anyone could shed some light here.
I have a movie sequence that i edited in FCP. I needed to make another sequence with some slight tweaking so what i did was.
1. file-new-sequence.
2. rename the sequence
3 double click the sequence in my bin area to make it into a “tab”
4. Clicked on the original movie tab and highlighted all of the clips in the timeline.
5. command “C” for copy
6.I clicked on the new movie sequence tab.
7.command”V” for paste in the new sequence timeline.Everything in the new timeline looked ok with no apparent issues.
The problem is in the canvas viewer window.
The original movie took up the whole canvas viewer.
The new sequence has a black line on top and on bottom. It looks like wide screen.
So now, where i originally had introduction credits on the screen, The credits are off of the picture and in the black areas.i know it sounds confusing, but if you follow the steps i took you will see the same problem.
I went to the apple store and they told me it could be that i didn’t have my camera hooked up when i created a new sequence. I tried to do what they said and it still didn’t work. If someone could please help me out i would appreciate it. Thanks
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4 Replies
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Please give the item properties for the clips in the original sequence, the item properties for the original sequence, and the item properties for the new sequence.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
You could control+click your sequence and duplicate it. It will retain the properties of your original sequence so formatting changes (sometimes caused by copy/paste into a new sequence) shouldn’t be an issue.
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Ok so i looked at the settings for both original movie and new copy and pasted one. I am not sure what to look at, but here are all of the settings.
original New
Tracks- 4V 11A 3V 8A
Audio- 2 Outputs 2 outputs
Frame Size- 720 x 480 720 x 480
Vid Rate- 29.97 FPS 29.97 FPS
Compressor-DV/dvcpro-ntsc DV/dvcpro-ntsc
Aud rate – 48.0 khz 48.0khz
Aud Format- 32-bit floating point 32bit floating point
Pixel Aspect-Ntsc-ccir 601 Ntsc-ccir 601
Anamorphic-yes no
Field dominance- lower even lower evenThe only difference i see here is the anamorphic setting. When i click it “on” in the new video it just stretches the picture. It does not get rid of the black wide screen lines.
I have been editing on this new timeline for some time now. Is there anyway i can salgave this project and not have to start from the begining again with a duplicate? I have been looking like a mad man to find where the setting are different.
I was able to recreate this problem at the apple store in front of the rep by doing the steps i originally posted. The apple rep didnt seem to understand why that happened. -
That’ll do it. That;s why the material is appearing letterboxed in the new sequence. You didn’t give the item properties for your media.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
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