FCP Leaves white line down side after export

[Leo Bubani]

I’m having the exact same problem! Quicktime 7 and Divx are showing a white line on the right border of the video.

[Aaron Singer]

Hi,
I actually found this question b/c I had the exact same problem and googled it. I tried a million things and it took forever, but finally figured it out. And I remember how annoying it was and figured I’d tell you what worked for me, hopefully it will work for you too. Instead of just pressing control or command E to export the file, go to FILE – EXPORT and you should have two options “Quicktime Movie” AND “Using Quicktime Conversion”. Make sure to click on “USING QUICKTIME CONVERSION” and NOT “QUICKTIME MOVIE”. It will take a lot longer to create the quicktime movie, but when it does, the white line should be gone.

Hope this helped!

By the way, if it does, and your grateful to me, the best way you could pay me back would be to watch my show (the one I was exporting in fcp when I came across this problem). The first episode is out on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVp7YlcqhOI

[Rob Davies]

Okay! So I had this problem last night and google’d it for hours only to find nothing! I figured it out from trial and error. Here’s the answer:

Open the exported video in QT pro.
Select “window” tab, then “show movie properties” from the drop down.
Highlight “Video Track” then select “Visual settings”.
Uncheck “Perserve aspect ratio”
Beside scaled size, add at least 3 numbers to the first box, this will make the window slightly wider eliminating the white Line.
It seems that the canvas is bigger then the actual video, Why? Dunno, but that will correct it! Hope I have helped someone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn2MzONBM2s

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[Akanksha Joshi]

I increased the scaled size by 4 pixels. The white line went.
I wonder though, does it distort the quality of the footage ?

[David Roth weiss]

[Akanksha Joshi] “I increased the scaled size by 4 pixels. The white line went.
I wonder though, does it distort the quality of the footage ?”

If you have to ask then you weren’t able to perceive the difference, and neither will your audience. Minor scaling is nothing to be concerned about.

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[Akanksha Joshi]

Sounds logical 🙂
Thanks!