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Print to video problem
I’ve just completed a music promo and trying to print to video. I’m running FCP 5.1.4 and am outputting to a Z1 by firewire and recording to mini DV. Everything works fine apart from the fact that when the Z1 is recording my masked 16:9 material displays on the camera screen with a black border all around it. When I play it back afterwards it gets stretched (and distorted) so that the sides touch the frames but there’s still a black bar at the top and bottom. The bars and countdown display normally.
Here’s some info that might be relevant:
I used three different formats within a DV PAL project:
DV (film footage which was telecined and returned to me on a mini DV tape and which I captured using DV PAL settings); DVCPRO HD 1080; and DVCPRO HD 720. I shrunk the DVCPRO HD material to make it fit the DV PAL frame and masked the DV PAL material so that the top and bottom edges matched the 16:9 HD footage.I need the DV copy in order to do a dub onto digibeta for broadcast. Am I right in being alarmed at the way the video is being displayed on the camera? Any ideas as to what I can do to get round this?
The worst part of all is that I’ve only got till tomorrow night (Tuesday) to sort this out. I’d be very grateful for any assistance anyone could give me.
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2 Replies
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You are in London, where post facilities of every nature abound. Why don’t you simply take a properly exported QT of your finished project on a hard drive to a facility that can output your project to DigiBeta?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
Thanks David, that’s probably the sensible thing to do.
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