Multiclip Issue! Help

[Wes Green]

I tried to remove attributes and clicked distort. It ended up stretching the footage instead of squeezing.

[Wes Green]

“1920 x 1080 is not anamorphic. Did you collapse the multiclip when you were done with the edit?”

Nope wasn’t anamorphic till it entered the new timeline at 720×486. Without clicking anamorphic on the sequence the footage is squeezed even more. When I finished with the multiclip edits I rendered them. After rendering FCP wouldn’t allow me to go back and edit in multiclip. So, to answer your question yes.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Wes Green] “I tried to remove attributes and clicked distort. It ended up stretching the footage instead of squeezing.”

Firs of all, Wes, you need to use a 23.98 Sd ANAMORPHIC timeline if you are planning on doing panning and zooming and wnat to keep the 16×9 aspect ratio sans letterbox (and why are you doing this by the way? Just curious).

Drag the 1080 clip in and then do you scaling or whatever there. Keep the distort the same. Unless you want a standard 4×3 timeline, then set up an non anamorphic 23.98 SD timeline.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Wes Green] “layoff to SD DVD.”

Meaning a real time layoff to a DVD recorder or make a DVD through COmpressor/DVDSP?

Jeremy

[Wes Green]

There were two cameras. One was up near the stage and the other was locked down in the back of the venue. People were walking in front of the camera all night. So, in order to avoid seeing them I zoomed in to the band at certain points throughout the edit. I’m not sure why they shot it in 24p. I’ll try using the 24p SD timeline though. Thanks!

[Hamish Lyons]

try distort and basic motion

[Chris Babbitt]

Wes,

If you collapse the multiclip, you don’t need to render, and you can go back later and make changes by uncollapsing.

[Wes Green]

Thanks to those who were trying to help me trouble shoot. What happened was that I made a new SD sequence, dropped my multiclips into the new timeline, and then I tried to change the format of the sequence to anamorphic. The timeline changed but the footage didn’t. I’ve found that you should change the sequence settings before dropping your clips in. Thanks for everyone’s help!
Wes