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custom aspect ratio
Hi there,
I need to work with a custom aspect ratio in Final Cut, but I can’t figure out how to do it.
The video is 840×524
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4 Replies
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You have to stay on PAR and stick with a standard frame size. If you need a custom aspect ratio, do it in After Effects.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
I’d be interested in knowing why you need this aspect ratio/ picture resolution. Custom display?
At any rate, it is going to cause all kinds of havoc inside FCP.– The reason why we have 720×480 as a basic format in DV is because it is an even expression within hexadecimal processing. When you start introducing all kinds of uneven operands, the computations go crazy. Don’t bother trying to send it to COLOR, for example. That isn’t going to work.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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Maybe After Effects is reading it incorrectly…
The original video is an h264 .mov which I brought into After Effects. Before I brought into after effects it was in perfect HD quality and looked like it was 1280×720. However, when I brought it into after effects it gave me that aspect ratio and blurred the video massively.
I then brought it into Final cut and it looked alright but had big black bars on the side. Unfortunately I’ve left work now, and can’t remember what aspect ratio it said in Final cut…
Does this make any sense?
Also is there a way to check a video’s aspect ratio in quicktime before I bring it into editing software? That’s probably a really stupid question, but I tried to find it in quicktime and couldn’t.
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Bring the clip into FCP, on the clip in the browser, right-click >> Make multi clip sequence. On the clip in the timeline, right-click >>collapse multi clip.
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