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Scaling Issue
Hello,
I’m reviewing some footage for a director and with certain sequences all of the video in the timeline window seems to be scaled up, creating a very pixelated image. However, when I open the clips in the viewer mode, the scale is set to 100 as if nothing was altered. When I pull the scale tab down it corrects it and brings the shot back to where it should be.
Any ideas as to why this is occurring or know of any ways to resolve this issue? I’ve tried nesting the sequence and scaling it down all at once but that doesn’t seem to work as it simply shrinks the zoomed in footage with backing out of the shot. Something to do with the sequence settings perhaps?
Thanks for any help!
Jason
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5 Replies
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Hi jason
Click the clip and “Remove attributes > Basic Motion + Distort”.
If the clip still no fitting in the canvas, clearly there is a miss match sequence-footage.
Cheers,
rafael -
Thanks for the input I appreciate it! I’m a bit new to this kind of error. If it is a miss match sequence-footage deal, what kind of steps are necessary to return it to a correct state? (my apologies if that’s a loaded question)
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First discharge that FC may be miss interpreting some how your footage, so have a look to the properties of any clip in the Browser (check size, pixels aspect and field order).
Then just open a new sequence and when FC asks f you want to conform the sequence to the footage say yes.
If then you put footage of any other size, FC will re-size it to fit on the Canvas.
Make sure you don’t have to sizes of footage.
Rafael -
Also under User Preferences>Editing, uncheck the “Always scale clips to sequence size”. Re-import the clips. That should cause the clips to not be scaled up when they are added to the timeline.
TomFaster! Better! Cheaper!
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Hello,
I was wondering if someone could answer me a question. I use an HDV camera, 1080p24 format, and FCP for editing. Sometimes I need to enlarge the size of the image by scaling to cut down the edges. I would like to know how far I could go without a noticeable quality loss?
Thank you.
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