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NTSC Got switched to PAL, Now Aspec Ratio is Messed Up
I have been editing my student film in FCP for a while now. It was in NTSC 29.97 fps because it was transfered to miniDV and that’s how I captured it. Well one day the labs at school were filled so a friend let me use his laptop. For some reason his FCP settings were set to PAL.
When I edited my film I did it in 4 parts (4 sequences). At the end I made one final sequence and dropped the four in it to but them together seamlessly. Well two wouldn’t and I finally figured because they were PAL. Well I copy and paste the clips from the PAL sequence into a new NTSC one with 29.97fps and it keeps the PAL aspect ratio. I lose ALOT of information because its 1.85 widescreen aspect ratio, and it makes into full screen. Plus the FPS difference causing the video and audio to be way out of sync. It does the same thing if i just change settings on the sequence back to the proper NTSC – ruins the aspect ratio and messes with the audio.
Is there anyway I can keep the edits I’ve made and get the footage back to the way it was (meaning the proper aspect ratio)? I want to copy and paste it into a new sequence with proper aspect ratio without it carrying over the PAL framing. I don’t want to have to redit my entire film again.
Please help me.
The thing that buggers me is that I know that all the image and sound data is there. The only problem is that FCP, seeing that it says “PAL” wants to do stuff to the image and ‘convert it’ into the NTSC when it shouldn’t have to because its just raw data.
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After copy/pasting, selct all the clips and use the Remove Attributes command to remove all the resizing FCP did to make it the PAL frame size.
Unfortunately, this will remove all your resizing…so if you did it for effect, you will have to re-do it. But its better than re-editing the whole film.
Not sure what FCP did to your audio…if it adjusted the speed, you can remove that adjustment in the same way.
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Thank you so, so much. My film teacher even told me that all was lost and I’d have to recut everything.
Thank you.
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