Sequence settings not right, Black borders on video?

[Zane Barker]

[Dillan Cohen] ” It was shot on a canon dslr and then converted to h.254 for editing”

canon dslrs record in h.264, and h.264 is NOT an editing codec. You need to convert to a proper editing codec.

Do a search on the cow for editing h.264 and there will be plenty of info on what to convert it to.

**Hindsight is always 1080p**

[Rafael Amador]

[Dillan Cohen] ” because theres these huge black horizontal lines on the top and bottom of my video”

[Dillan Cohen] ” the quality of video is noticeably worse then if it were put on a timeline with the right sequence settings.”

[Dillan Cohen] ” It was shot on a canon dslr and then converted to h.254 for editing”
Hi Dillan,
Your questions, with all my respects, shows that you are absolutely lost.
Make your self a favor, and learn about your workflow before you get in more troubles.
This is a good starting point:
https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Dillan Cohen]

Thanks for the response zane, looking back my post may have sounded a bit confusing and I’m certainly still learning but I mispoke when I said it was converted to h.264 I meant to say I converted it to apple pro res 422, I guess my main question would be is there a way to resize or reformat a whole timeline to its proper settings if its already laid in incorrectly??

[Dillan Cohen]

Thanks for the video Rafeal, I watched it and it will surely come in handy in the future, I love being a filmmaker I’m just terrible at the tech stuff and am still learning, the videos great for what to do next time, and I know what I wrote is pretty confusing but I already edited the whole project and can’t start over, so basically is there any way to “change the sequnce settings to match the clip settings” for the whole timeline after the fact, I’ve tried to do it manualy in sequence settings but it just makes the clip really tiny

Thanks for any input

[Dillan Cohen]

If it makes things easier this is what it currently looks like:

This Is what it looks like in a sequence with the right settings direct from the bin:

and this is what I get when I try to fix the settings either by changing them in sequence settings or moving the clip to a sequence with the proper settings like the one above:

[David Roth weiss]

In the third example simply right click on the click and choose Remove Attributes and check both Basic Motion and Distort, then click okay.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Dillan Cohen]

David Roth Weiss You are the man! Thank you so much that was exactly what I was looking for, I was able to correct the settings for my whole project in under a minunte, thanks for the help

[David Roth weiss]

[Dillan Cohen] “Thank you so much that was exactly what I was looking for, I was able to correct the settings for my whole project in under a minunte, thanks for the help”

Excellent! I like to hear about good results Dillan.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.