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Many ways to skin a cat! How many ways to down convert?
I’d now like to down convert a project that originated as DI’s at 2048×1556 .DPX’s down to HD 108024p… My picture seems to want to “snap” vertically when I nest the bigger sequence into the smaller one. so I was just wondering about the different ways people are doing conversions of ones FCP timeline out there…
Thanks to all!
Hi-Def and 2K Online Finishing
Compositing, Motion Graphics
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I would drop them into something like Shake or After Effects… then you can render out 10 bit HD quicktimes. I don’t care for FCP’s handling of aspects and resolution sometimes – it can be a little dodgy.
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Got Kona?
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Yes I do.. I know it will do conversions upon input… will it do conversions of quicktimes in my FCP timeline?
Hi-Def and 2K Online Finishing
Compositing, Motion Graphics
Hollywood, Ca -
FCP is probably trying to make the image 16:9 automatically. If you want it look correct aspect in a 1920 x 1080 sequence then you will have to set the distort parameters to match. Once you set one clip, then copy and paste attributes to all other clips. You can select all other clips in the timeline of they are the same ratio and paste just distort parameters.
A quick play with the calculator tells me that 2048 x 1556 is very close to 4:3. If that is so then a distort ratio of around 30% is required.
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[N3w Y0rk in LA] “will it do conversions of quicktimes in my FCP timeline?”
And what do you need that for? Just trying to get a sense of what you need.
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A quick Google threw up and old cow post – https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/98/863219
and within it a link to this software – https://pomfort.com/silverstack/
Hope it helps
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