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Need advice about editing from two different cameras
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Well– I didn’t end up doing the steps you last suggested because I was already like 75% through all the footage… It all looks good at 30fps, but what I am confused about is how to output my HD footage to compressor as HD… The individual .mov files that my FCP project is using are at 1920×1080.. The sequence settings in FCP is also set to prores 44 30fps1920x1080…
Yet when I send to compressor for the final output, on the video settings tab, if I choose “100% of source”, it says it is 720×480.. Why is that not 1920×1080? or 1280×720 as I would expect for HD?
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a likely possibility is that you dragged or copied all your clips to your timeline one go.
if you bring clips in individually, FCP recognises the clip’s format, and asks if you want to change the sequence settings to those of the clip.
if you bring more than one clip, WITH DIFFERENT PROPERTIES to the timeline, FCP will simply leave the sequence at it’s current settings, without asking you.
if you haven’t set FCP up, the defualt setting for new sequences is DV NTSC.
720×480 29.976 fpsyou need to make anew sequence with the correct settings.
the simplest way to do that is to make anew sequence,
then edit ONE of your clips into it, chose the format you have most of, probably your 29.97, or 30 fps, not the 24.FCP will ask if you want the sequence to match the clip, say YES,
now you can delete that clip
and copy your edit from your original sequence into this new one.it’s likely you’ll have sync issues, so check for that.
nick
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oh, and for exporting, it’s recommended that you do a simple export to QuickTime Movie, using your “Current Settings”
if you’ve rendered it should be quite fast.
THEN run that file though compressor.nick
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Ok, so now that I have to rebuild my sequence for the 10th time (not really but feels like it), is there an easy way to get the start position of a clip and be able to move my clips in the new sequence to those start positions? It will be extremely tedious to have to line everything up with the audio all over again, and I am hoping I do not have to do that.
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well first thing would be to copy and paste the whole lot in one go from one timeline to the other.
but yes, you can select and move multiple clips
you can add marketers to either the sequence or individual clips,
hit m for markerand if you have snapping turned on (the right-most button, top-right of the timeline)
clips that you are moving should snap to other clips or markersnick
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I tried going from my previous sequence, and selecting all the clips and copying them, and pasting them into my new sequence. Since FCP incorrectly had my sequence at 720×480, when I go to my new 1280×720 sequence, all the clips that I paste in from the “bad” sequence are small and centered in the viewer– I am assuming because they are at 720×480. I could not see a way to tell FCP: “DON’T DO THAT!!!!”… Is there a way?
All of this is sooo annoying!!!
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well you dived in without knowing what you were doing!
see it as a learning experience!why are you now putting your 1920×1080 clips in a 1280×720 sequence???
maybe you down converted them when you made prores versions?
that’s an odd thing to do, even if your final delivery is 1280×720anyway, yes, the clips had to be scaled down when you put them into the smaller sequence.
they’ll carry that scaling into the new one, but its easy to remove it.
select all the clips, right click on them and chose “Remove Attributes”
chose “Basic Motion” from the window that appears.
dont chose “Opacity”or you’ll lose al the pen tool work you did!if you are putting 1920×1080 clips in a 1280×720 timeline, however, this won’t work,
well it will, but the clips will be their FULL size, so they’ll all be oversized in the smaller sequence.what you’d need in this case is the “Scale To Sequence” command in the Modify Menu.
with either method, you’ll lose any scaling effects you may have already added, and have to re-do them
while you’re at it you should open your sequence’s settings,
go to the Video Processing tab, and set Motion Scaling to “Best”
still won’t be the best scaling around, but it’s the best you’ll get within FCP. -
> why are you now putting your 1920×1080 clips in a 1280×720 sequence???
No idea.. Because I dragged my 1920×1080 clip into a new sequence and FCP said “hey this doesn’t match, do you want me to make it match?” and I said yes.. and when I looked at the sequence settings it is at 1280×720……..
UGH!!!!
I think it might be better for me to just give up.
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i guess that clip wasn’t 1920×1080!
naw, don’t give up,
you;re so close.you could just put the clips in the new sequence, Scale To Sequence,
and be done with it.nothing wrong with 1280×720,it;s a good size for uploads o Youtube and Vimeo, if thats want you’re doing
up to you if you want t
if it were me, first, i’d check the clips properties,
maybe you have a majority of 1920×1080,and you by chance grabbed a 1280x720one first.
in the FCP Browser, you can see columns of al sorts of properties,
if it;s set to icon view,
right click on the background of the browser, and chose “View as List”if you’re majority of clips is 1920×1080, you might as well finish at 1920×1080.
the 1280×720 clips will be scaled up, but if this not a very important project, or just for fun, or to show some event,
then maybe it’s okup to you how far back you want to go (re-process your original clips or not)
nick
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Ok, I just went and took a 2nd look to try to understand what is going on.. I think I just got confused is all… Camera 1’s footage is 1280×720, camera 2’s is 1920×1080… So when I told compressor to make a 30fps version of camera 1 footage, it was automatically at 1280×720, and that’s why FCP made the sequence that aspect ratio…
So, I just setup a batch job in compressor to turn all camera 2’s clips to 1280×720 so they will match with camera 1… Once that’s done then I will be working with a 1280×720 sequence…
I have decided to not give up.
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