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Scaling Issues—With funky sequence preset.
Greetings! Working on an unusual project and ran into a wall:
I am working on a type of animation where all the frames have been sequenced in .psd. The frame size is 963 x 1591, so I created a sequence preset to reflect that size (with the intent of doing a 90degree rotation once I had the sequence in it’s final video form.
So I have the sequence preset and it is the exact same size as the .psd files it will end-up holding. When I add the .PSD to the timeline they get distorted and scaled to be SQUARE instead of rectangular. (see photo)
I know I can fix this by rescaling each individual file with ‘wireframe’ but seeing as I have 8000+ frames to work with that is not an option. So I need a solution to natively import the .psd(s) into a FCP timeline without the scaling OR I need a workaround in something like Aftereffects. I am thinking there is a check-box in the user prefs that I am not aware of. Thoughts anyone?
D.M. Rosemark
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6 Replies
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Hi Dave!
1) That is a very complicated question, but the long and the sort of it is that this is the actual analogue frame size of the inter-positive.
2) Screens and Monitors
3) Unknown at the moment. I will probably archive in a prores 422 or an uncompressed 10-bit.
BEST
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Dave,
Yeah I think we are putting the cart before the horse. What I am looking for is an intermediate FCP interface to work with the animation in its native orientation. After that, getting it to the final shell is not my problem.
My problem is getting the frames into the a vertical sequence without it scaling the .psd into some weird (and seemingly arbitrary) aspect.
What I need is a way to import .psd into my timeline w/out FCP deciding it needs to scale them.
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Well like I said, I am only working with the files in their native orientation as an intermediate. I figure that doing a 90 degree rotation ONCE to a completed video file is a lot better then doing it 8000 times to individual .psd files.
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You seem to be making this overly complex. Looking at your image it appears the correct way to view it is 1591 x 953. If you work in portrait and then rotate 90 you end up back at landscape so firstly your sequence should be landscape which makes it close to 16:9.
That said, FCP doesn’t like working at non standard frame sizes and is a poor scaler. AE is probably a better tool particularly as you are dealing with psd files.
Dave’s point about how this is to be presented makes a big difference to your approach. Not knowing how it will be played makes it really difficult to offer more concrete advice. If I knew for example it would be played off bluray to a monitor then my advice would be to work within a 1920 x 1080 sequence with a slight scale up and a trim to the distort.
Again, FCP may not be the best tool.
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OK I should really restate the question. Forget anything i mentioned about vertical profiles etc. b/c the same thing would happen when importing a .psd file into a standard video format. Working with a vertical profile IS NOT the problem.
So my question is:
How do I get a .psd it import into a timeline, at the PSD(s) native size and not have it be scaled/skewed.
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After Effects or you could try Motion. FCP is not designed for non standard frame sizes and is a poor scaler as has been mentioned already.
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