External Display/ Canvas Aspect Ratio Problem

[Jaap Verdenius]

Your sequence settings seem to have turned sour.

1. Open your User Preferences (alt-Q). In the editing tab, set Auto-Conform Sequences to Ask
2. Create a new sequence. The sequence preset doesn’t matter.
3. Drag your footage from the browser into the sequence. Now you will see a FCP message asking you it will cahnge sequence settings to match your clip. Select yes.

And then things should be OK.

Jaap

[Oriel Pe’er]

Hey Jaap
Thanks for your response

Unfortunately, I can’t see the option you mentioned in the “User Preferences” under “Editing”

Any reason for that?

I tried to upload a pic – but it wont let me
Thanks again
can’t wait to get started working on this…

[Oriel Pe’er]

Ok – problem #1 solved!

I opened a New sequence and played around with the configurations- I’m editing DV not HDV and it was set on Apple Intermediate codec.

Now problem #2- How do I get rid of the orange stripe it gives me every time I add a new video?

It still does that.

thank you again!

[David Roth weiss]

Oriel,

It’s clear that you’ve jumped into editing on FCP without bothering to read the manual. So, at least take the time to look at the following video tutorial, which tells you very simply and precisely how to properly setup and begin FCP projects.

If you follow the instructions every single time, no one again will ever know that you didn’t read the manual, and you can go on to fame and fortune as a professional editor.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/realtime_sequences.php

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Jaap Verdenius]

I am not sure if that is right, David. I guess if everyone has learned the manual by heart there is no need for a forum anymore. But that is not the case. People want to make a jump start to get to the creative part. I would not blame them for that and I see no reason to look down upon it.
Answering questions may take a bit of patience – think of your teachers at school.

Jp

[Jaap Verdenius]

By the way Oriel, David is also right of course: the link he refers to gives a good introduction, it’s worth absorbing it.

You can find the auto-conform option in the User Preferences’ Editing tab, bottom right.

Jp

[David Roth weiss]

[Jaap Verdenius] “Answering questions may take a bit of patience”

Jaap,

I am the #7 poster of all time on the Creative Cow and have been onboard since the Cow was started, so I believe that qualifies me as having a certain measure of patience. However, I do get very impatient with those few people who think that the others here have nothing better to do with our time than to teach them everything, because they are simply too lazy to even glimpse at the manual.

Those of us who do answer many of the questions here know the obvious clues — we know when people haven’t even bothered to crack the manual. And, since we are all unpaid volunteers who are here to help, from time to time you will see us reminding the occasional slacker to RTFM, and rightfully so. Feed a person all the answers and you encourage them to become dependent, show them how to find the answers and you set them free.

[Jaap Verdenius] “People want to make a jump start to get to the creative part. I would not blame them for that and I see no reason to look down upon it. “

Learning to do things the wrong way from the very beginning in FCP is a huge mistake that takes up vast amounts of a person’s creative time and creative energy, as well as the time and energy of those who are here to help. So, it’s far better to point them in the right direction than to simply encourage them to begin by experimenting.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Jaap Verdenius]

David, I understand your point – however: I don’t know the guy and neither do you. Shouldn’t one give people the benefit of doubt until proven otherwise?
It was his 1st question on the forum, he may have overlooked something, we all do sometimes.

As a teacher I experienced that some people learn by reading the manual, others learn by doing, and most people are somewhere inbetween; but that none of these strategies predicts dependent behavior. I guess it is more a matter of personality.

I am far from #7 but I am just like you trying to help out people on a voluntary basis. I would not do it if I felt it would be counterproductive.

Shall we close the case here?

Jp

[David Roth weiss]

[Jaap Verdenius] “I would not do it if I felt it would be counterproductive.
Shall we close the case here?
“

I sincerely hope that Oriel takes my advice along with the criticism and watches the tutorial I recommended. And, I hope he/she commits it to memory and goes on to a lifetime of creativity using FCP.

I hope Oriel recognizes why I helped in the way I did and comes back to the Cow anytime. And, I’ll gladly help you both whenever I can.

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Oriel Pe’er]

Dear Jaap and David,

I would start by thanking both of you for you time and patience trying to solve my problem. I have used the video tutorial- It is great, and DID solve my problem.

Just a little background information about me… I started working with FCP about a year ago. When I got it, I started reading the manual, but it immediately turned me off since it looked like Cheinese to me. I learned only by trying and googleing my problems. For a whole year i think I accomplished great understanding of FCP technically, and of editing as an art form. I do believe that trying and failing, together with researching answers, and sometimes posting is the best way, for me, to learn the craft.

I’m a writer and a filmmaker. I also edit my own films, so like to play around with FCP, learn tricks etc. , but lately I also preferred spending my time creating materials, so reading the manual is not something I would or could do at the moment.

Jaap is right, this is my first post here. I actually opened the account ONLY because I couldn’t seem to find an answer to it on the manual or in forums (even though it seems to me now it in the category of “simple common questions”)- and I thought the two problems are effected by one another. I spent two nights trying to research it.

Bottom line, I appreciate your great help. The fact that you raised a discussion about it only shows me you care, and I arrived at a good place.

Jaap- Wherever you may teach, I’m sure you are a fantastic teacher.

Best to you,
Oriel (A male!) 🙂