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I hope I don’t have to re-edit everything…
This requires a story, so bare with me.
We shot a short film in HD (with the HVX-200) and gave the sound mixer our macbook and harddrive to sync all the scenes with sound to the video. When he gave it back to us, everything that was needed to be synced sounded right, but all the clips he synced (he put them on a separate sequence) were apparently in a different format.
I didn’t realize this until I created a new sequence (within the same project) and dragged a few original clips onto it. Before I dropped them, FCP asked that question about formatting the clips properly to match them (I forget exactly what it said), so, unsure of what it was I just pressed “OK” and everything seemed fine. I edited together about 10 mins of the clips that didn’t have sound, but once I started dragging in the SYNCED clips….that’s when I realized something was wrong. The synced clips were an entirely different size than the clips without sound. (They had big black borders on the side.) So, again unsure of what to do, I just started editing all the same clips on the sequence the soundmixer had already created (where all the synced clips were) because it formatted it all properly. Or so I thought.
I didn’t realize til much much later that everything that was on the synced-clip sequence had much smaller video. If I stretched it out, even a little past 100%, everything became horribly blurry and pixelated. Also, I had already put the letterboxing we’re going to work with (which is an aspect ratio of 2.35:1), so when I tried exporting a little clip to see if it made a difference whether or not the video was smaller, everything was horribly squished. So….I don’t know how to go about all this. To either make the video larger (the correct format) or copy all the properties of the clips I edited onto a fresh, new project so I don’t have to re-edit everything again. Is that possible? I’ve come very close to just re-syncing all the clips to make them the same format but I don’t want to waste time if there’s an easier solution. Any ideas (and, more importantly, instructions)?
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Check that the setting (Size, pixels aspect) are properly set in the Browser.
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It seems from your description that he changed the format/size to a much “more friendly” format for him to work in. This is common for sound guys since they work with systems that aren’t as forgiving for the large video files. I would assume he exported it out into his audio system, or did he do his audio thing within FCP?
Anyway, he definitely change some settings in the sequence he created, possibly due to a wrongly chosen easy setup, or it was a codec that worked with his audio system.
As already noted, you need to make sure all your settings are correct.
Your post sounded as if you were confused when FCP asked the “settings” question.
What it is saying is “hey your footage doesn’t match the sequence you are trying to work with…..Do you want me to fix that?” You said yes by answering OK. Basically you want to make sure that your timeline settings match your footage.Try this…..
assuming that your audio guy just choose a wrong sequence setting (and didn’t export/do his thing/ then export back to fcp – thats a whole other issue)….start a new sequence, and put one of your original clip into it, click ok when asked about settings (this forces your sequence to the proper codec).
delete that clip, copy/paste all the “small” clips from the sync sequence, into this new sequence.hopefully everything will match back up.
Wait a minute, you said that the audio guy put his synced clips in a separate sequence….
Can you just paste his audio into your original sequences?
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