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opps! more fun with aspect ratios…
i kind of noticed this before, but didn’t may it much attention. (silly me). but when i watched the rendered movie of my project which is HDCam captured as DVCPro HD along with HDV captured natively, all beautifully cut together on a DVCPro HD timeline (thanks to FCP 6), i noticed my talent get fat, then skinny.
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yes, all my HDV clips (which are 1440) are “fat”, while my HDCam (DVCPro HD) clips look just dandy. of course, if i choose each clip, go to the Motion tab and change the Distort/Aspect Ratio to “13”, life is grand. i should’ve checked this sooner when i saw that these HDV clips were wider than the frame in the Canvas, that is, the left and right sides went beyond the frame. i guess i just figured FCP would “take care of this” upon final render. why would i think that?
any shortcuts to fix these clips?
thanks again!
mh
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mortimer,
When importing footage to FC you must allways check the “Pixel aspect” and”Annamorphic” in the Brownser window (also the “field-order”). FC only recognice properly the footage that you had capture through the application. And not always. Many times when re-opening a project some footage that the day before was Annamorphic, show-up as 4×3, so I must check the Annamorphic columm manually.
Rafael -
Scale one clip as you want it. Select that clip. Select from menu, Edit – Copy (command-C). Select multiple other clips. From menu, Edit – Paste Attributes (option-V). Check the box for Basic Motion and click OK. Maybe you have used this before. If not, check the manual under Copying and Pasting Specific Clip Attributes.
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