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Dimensions hosed ot 1440…
Uncertain if it’s a FCP or Motion problem.
Installed FCP Studio this weekend. Have a project I tweaked two clips for in Motion. “Send to Motion” didn’t work right so figured the get-around would be to export from FCP a .mov file, bring into Motion for tweaking then export clip from Motion as .mov file. Project is HDV 1080i/60; dimensions: 1440 x 1080.
Imported fine into FCP and laid clip into timeline. Dropped MB2 filter on clip only to discover right side of clip frame — a bit more than one-tenth of the frame — is blank, as if the width dimensions are off (squashed). In other words, if there’s video on the underlying layer of the timeline, that video is visible in the right side sliver that’s missing from the newly imported clip.
So back in Motion I export at 1920 x 1080 and re-import. No difference. The left side of clip won’t fill frame. Screenshots below to help clarify:
https://www.randomcove.com/downs/fcp1.jpg = imported .mov clip on video layer 2 (V1 layer footage observable on right side of frame).
https://www.randomcove.com/downs/fcp2.jpg = imported .mov clip on V2 with no video on V1.
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Kinda looks like you cropped your frame by that amount. Doesn’t looked squished at all.
Go back into Motion with your original project file and check to see if you didn’t crop anything by accident.
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Have checked that that it’s not cropped, and agree the image doesn’t look squeezed. We’re stumped at what’s causing it. Going to try more tests.
Even before importing to FCP, I open the clips in Quicktime to confirm that the dimensions are correct — both at 1440x and 1920x. They are and still this odd crop thing occurs.
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Have you checked to see if FCP is cropping this video? This is an interesting issue.
You may have to redo the effect. Have you upgraded to FCP6 in the middle of your project? I know that will cause wierd things like this.
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Wayne Carey
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Thanks for the response, Wayne. Have narrowed it down to being a problem specific to Magic Bullet’s “LS Bronze” filter (see below).
https://www.randomcove.com/downs/fcp3.jpg = with no filter applied. The full frame is seen.
https://www.randomcove.com/downs/fcp4.jpg = with “LS Bronze” filter on, cropping the right side of frame.
So I turned off the filter and tried numerous other filters from the Look Suite package, as well as from FCP in general and all work without cropping the frame. I’m thinking LS Bronze is corrupted. Gonna contact Magic Bullet.
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That will do it!
Filters can be corrupted and can cause problems. Sorry, I didn’t notice the filtered effect. Do you have one of the new Mac Pro system running FCS2? I do know that Magic Bullet will have trouble with FCS2 for the moment.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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Am not on a Mac Pro system. Did find two other filters in the LS suite that have the same error. Magic Bullet folk are running tests to try and resolve.
Will report back if I hear anything.
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