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Export format. Your worst nightmare!
OK, I’m geriatric, stupid and incompetent. I am way out of my depth in a subject which is very, very ancillary to my main job. And boy do I need help, please.
This is probably bread and butter stuff to all you experienced guys but it really has me stumped and unfortunately my mentor/boss is not quite the expert he might wish to appear!
I am trying to create a slideshow, for projection at 1400 x 1050 px. But I am completely unable to maintain the correct aspect ratio/format on export from FCP 5.
To try to figure out my mistakes I created three images of perfect circles in Photoshop,
one at 1400x1050px (4:3),
one at 1440×900 (4.8:3)
one at 1866×1050 (16×9)The choices of pixel ratios are due to the equipment-
Mac Pro to work on
Mac Book Pro to project from
Realis SX80 projectorIn FCP all three images maintain perfect circles at all stages.
Having exported from FCP, using Quicktime Conversion. (I know no other way!)the saved sequence icon shows the first image which is now tall and thin.
When the three images are run as a quicktime movie, all three images are almost identically tall and thin. The smaller image occupies a smaller part of the screen and the largest occupies the largest proportion of the screen, but all three circles are definitey not circular. This must be something to do with Export settings, but all my manual reading and searching only produces highly technical information, which goes directly over my head and certainly does not lead to a conclusion.
I would be very grateful for a simple explanation of what I’m doing wrong/how to fix it, please.
Avery Little …. puzzled
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2 Replies
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Try this:
Export using QuickTime Conversion (Under File > Export)
Set Format to QuickTime Movie (default setting)
Click the Options button next to the Format setting
Under Video, click Settings, then select your compression format. You’ll need to look into the software you are using for playback to see what it will support. If you will be using QuickTime, then you might try the H.264 codec. Then change the Quality setting to Best. Click OK.
Under Video, click Size. Under the Dimensions drop down click Custom, then enter the dimensions just to the right. Click OK.
If you need sound, then you can adjust those settings by clicking Settings under the Sound heading. If you don’t need sound, uncheck the box.
Uncheck Prepare for Internet Streaming.
Click OK.
Select your save location, give the file a title, then click Save. You should be good to go now.
Mike Johnson
Final Cut Pro Editor
Drury Outdoors
http://www.druryoutdoors.com
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Thank you very much indeed for your help. It worked very well and has gone a long way to resolving the problem. …. but!
When I clicked the Options button next to the format setting, I got the window titled “Movie Settings”
In this window were listed several items, one of which was the current size of the movie. I found that these figures would be different each time I clicked through to this window.
It listed the dimensions of the movie variously as 1278 x 720; 1278×787 and various other sizes.
If I adjusted the custom size settings to match these settings I got perfect circles for all the different sizes of images in the movie.
I got a book Final Cut Pro 5 For Mac OSX and this lead me to control click the little sequence1 icon in the Browser window where I set a dimension (1400×1050, I think I set) I then went back throuhg your procedure and set 1400×1050 there and everything seems to be fine and consistent.
Being very underconfident in this respect I will probably be back for more assistance and advice (reassurance) in due course.
Thank you again, very much for your help.
Avery Little …. puzzled
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