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Dug myself into a FINAL CUT Hole
If just realised 3/4 of the way through a doco I’m cutting [which I’ve inherited from someone who set it up] that I’ve been cutting at the wrong ratio. All my footage is 16/9 anamorphic but my sequence isn’t anamorphic so all my shots are now letterboxed. eeeeeK!
I have so much layering going on it’s going to do my head in if I have to go back to each clip in the timeline. Even changing the format of the clips in the timeline doesn’t work. It seems I have to go back and individually replace each clip.
Is this the case or is there a way around it?
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Can’t you just change the sequence to anamorphic? Problem solved. In fact, the right way to do it from the beginning. Anamporphic footage in an anamorphic sequence.
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A VERY GOOD IDEA IS TO MAKE A COPY OF YOUR SEQ FIRST SO IF IT DOESN’T WORK YOU DO NOT LOOSE ANYTHING. Once all is ok you can either delete or keep the original seq.
change your seq to anamorphic (command-0 and then tick the 16-9 box in the seq setting)
select all video clips in the timeline and select ‘remove attributes’ (don’t have fcp open but I think its under the seq menu) and only select ‘distort’ from the options.
this will remove all the letterboxing for all clips. you have to re-render naything that is not realtime though.
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[dan811] “I have so much layering going on it’s going to do my head in if I have to go back to each clip in the timeline. Even changing the format of the clips in the timeline doesn’t work. It seems I have to go back and individually replace each clip.”
Don’t worry. This is just a very common misunderstanding of how Final Cut deals with aspect ratios.
When you put a check mark for “anamorphic” all it does is apply some settings in the Motion tab. That’s it. So if your clip has already been placed in a sequence and you remove the “check mark” for anamorphic, nothing happens because the order has already been carried out (hope that makes sense).
Look in the manual and familiarize yourself with the motion tab and it’s different settings. Then read about copying, pasting, and removing “attributes”. With this new knowledge, you can fix the AR of all your clips in a matter of seconds. The attributes that control AR are called “Basic Motion” and “Distort”.
Sean
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I think you’ll have to actually cut and paste everything into a new anamorphic seq. For some unknown reason, the existing footage in the sequence won’t display correctly when you change your sequence setting. New stuff that you cut in will, but not the existing. This is what I remember, anyhow.
Just make yourself a new anamorphic seq, then copy and paste everything into it.
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Thanks for all the help. The remove distort attributes worked well. Apart from a few graphics I had to manually go in a sort it was fine.
Won’t make this mistake again!
Danny
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