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QT import is cropped
I have a low res QT of a stock shot to use as a placeholder. When I import it to FCP it looks OK, though pixelly, in the canvas window but when I edit it in, it shows up on the record window with half the image cropped out – I just see a little square of image in the middle! All I can do is blow it up, I can’t seem to remove the crop (no crop is noted in the Motion window). What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Peter
Peter Rhodes
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8 Replies
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Hi,
When checking to see if the clip has ‘motion cropped’. Are you selecting the clip in the project assets window, or the clip on the timeline.
Hope this help.
grafx that flow!
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It isn’t cropped, it is – as you said – low resolution. FCP by default will show it at actual pixel resolution, which compared to your sequence is… small. To see it at full size go to the motion tab and increase scaling until it fills the screen.
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Sorry, I misread… you do say it’s cropped.
As grafxflow says I would first open it from the browser and see if the crop has been set there.
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Opening the QT from the browser shows the whole image – it becomes cropped only once it is seen in the canvas window. (I think I mispoke in my first email.)
Peter Rhodes
Boston, MA -
I think you still should check the motion tab settings for motion, crop, and distort to see if FCP has done some kind of automatic “helping”. Do this from the Browser and then also from the Timeline and see if there’s a difference.
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Thanks, braker, for taking an interest in this. In the Viewer window (is that what you mean when you say “check the Browser”?) there is no crop set, distort is set at -160 x -120 and aspect ratio is set at 0. Double clicking on the clip in the Canvas window the settings are the same except for the aspect ratio which seemed to change to -12.5! But correcting that didn’t solve the problem. Changing the distort to -360 x -240 (which are what my rushes are set at) only blows up the cropped image again.
Peter Rhodes
Boston, MA -
Hi,
Okay when you say cropped.. what do you mean?
Example being. When you select the movie on the canvas and it highlights you get a white border with a blue cross going through the clip. Is the movie inside the box flush or is it cropped inside of the white border.
regards
grafxflowgrafx that flow!
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As I was just reminded in another thread, you might want to right-click the clip in the timeline and do “Remove Attributes. Check the any video attributes available and submit. That will remove any automatic muddling FCP may have done.
Another thing that occurred to me is that if this is a sample clip, it may have some “protection” on it. That could be in the form of an alpha channel… I think… maybe?
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