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How To: Center Cut HD into a SD 4:3 Timeline?
Hi, everyone…
My appoligies if this has been addressed in a previous post – I searched and found nothing on this specific topic.
I have a 30 minute time sensitive football coach’s show that needs to be turned around in about 5 hours. The final deliverable is a DVCPRO50 4:3 tape.
The show will use 4:3 SD highlights from the game mixed with HD (1080 60i AVCINTRA) footage of the host and coach (net 10 minutes of the show).
I need the fastest workflow to address this issue: when I add the HD footage to my 4:3 SD master timeline, the HD footage is always letterboxed. I need center cut. Is there a way to do this easily on a clip by clip basis? Do I set a TL preference to handle HD material a certain way?
FYI, we’re using Black Magic Decklink Studio Pro I/O cards to talk via SDI with our DVCPRO50 decks.
As an aside, I’m coming from the Liquid Chrome world where I am used to being able to right click on a clip or group of clips and tell them to scale to fit, fit x, fit y, etc. This allowed for each clip to use those rules no matter what sequence format they were used in. Pretty cool. Alas, Chrome is a dead NLE, and I LOVE FCP. Thanks for bringing me along!
Banks
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[Banks Meador] “I need the fastest workflow to address this issue: when I add the HD footage to my 4:3 SD master timeline, the HD footage is always letterboxed. I need center cut. Is there a way to do this easily on a clip by clip basis? Do I set a TL preference to handle HD material a certain way? “
Select the clips in the timeline.
Right Click
Remove Attributes
Basic Motion and Distort
FCP is automatically scaling down your clips to fit horizontally.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Walter,
Thanks for the quick response! I’ll do that.
Is there a way to set a preference on how FCP scales HD clips in a TL?
Thanks again,
Banks
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User Prefs > Editing > Uncheck FCP automatically scale clips to match sequence.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Awards.
Owner, Biscardi Creative Media featuring HD Post
Biscardi Creative MediaCreative Cow Forum Host:
Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business & Marketing, Maxx Digital.
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