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Mixed video sizes on the timeline
Good Morning Cow:
I have an editor working on a project in FCP 6.0.1 on an Intel Mac with Kona LH capture card. She has a clip that is 320×240 with timecode burnin that she is inserting into her 720×480 DV/DVCPro timeline. Normally (at least in version 5 or earlier) the clip would lay down at 320×240 with black filling the rest of the frame, you could then just resize the clip in the motion tab to fit the frame. When she lays the clip on the timeline it fills the frame, but it only shows one part of the actual video image. We tried rescaling the image such that it is 100% with black around it, but still only part of the video image is viewable. We checked the cropping features and everything is set to zero, so there isn’t a crop on the clip. It is as if the clip has been zoomed in on instead of blowing up the shot. I am still running 5.1 so I can’t duplicate her problems and both of us are crashing on deadlines. Has anyone else experienced this in FCP 6 and if so what are we missing? What was your solution? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Jamie
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5 Replies
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You said you had check for cropping, but did you check to see if distort was also set to zero?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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David,
Thank you for your reply. I just checked and the distort is set to zero. It looks as if the image has a black matte with a square cut out in the middle laid on top of the image such that the hole reveals the image and the black hides the rest. (no filters are on the image) I’m lost as to what is going on. When she starts to drag the outpoint of the clip on the timeline the image in the Canvas Viewer shows the full image, but when she stops dragging, it goes back to only showing part of the image. Right now her work around is to take video into AE, blow it up to 720×480 and kick out a DV25 file.
Jamie
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Sound like its time to trash the prefs on that machine…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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The editor has been trashing prefs on this machine quite a bit because newly digitized material defaults to zero start timecode and reel numbers default to 001. I had that problem once when I upgraded from 5 to 5.1, but trashing the prefs one time solved it. Any other suggestions?
Jamie
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Could there be an alpha channel in that footage cropping it?
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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