Urgent Help needed with Aspect ratios! please!!

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Urgent Help needed with Aspect ratios! please!!

Posted by Alex May on July 11, 2005 at 5:59 pm

Dear FCP users,

I’ve been editing a musical that I volounteered to film using two DSR-570 DVCAM cameras.

Both were recorded in 16:9 widescreen (PAL).

Both were captured with my machine and same DSR-11 deck. No setting were changed.

In the bin, my 1st half’s video was streached looking, as expected for my 16:9 footage. However, when I started playing with the 2nd half’s video, black bars had letter boxed my video and now exporting to DVD studio pro, I find that that the letter box material is 4:3!

I managed to ctl+click on the files from the 2nd half in the bin and saw they were anamorphic, so switched them, however my material in the sequence doesn’t change, neither does it if i do it individually.

I’ve also checked the setting of my sequence, both are exactly the same.

If I drag the 2nd half’s video into a new sequence, it’s perfect like my 1st half, however I don’t want to wase time re-editing and I’ve done as much as I could think of!

Does anyone have any ideas?

I took a couple of screen shots to show what happens to the material that is on the sequence timeline, and the material that is in the bin.

Any ideas would be so greatful as I’ve got a tight deadline to do i for a school!

Thanks,
Alex

https://www.ppm6.co.uk/weirdaspect.jpg
https://www.ppm6.co.uk/weirdaspect1.jpg

(in the viewer window)

Alex May replied 20 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Jeff Carpenter
July 11, 2005 at 6:29 pm

Have you checked the “Motion” tab in the viewer for any of your clips? There is an aspect ratio setting in there.

Depending on what you want, -33, 0, or 33 could all be numbers you want. Try changing it to those and see if that changes it to what you want.
Alex May
July 11, 2005 at 7:02 pm

I can’t see an aspect ratio setting there?

I’m using 4.5 HD.

Thanks,

ALex
Bryce Whiteside
July 11, 2005 at 7:24 pm

Not in front of my mac right now, but I believe the numbers from Jeff go in Distort. Twirl done the Distort arrow under the Motion tab.

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion
Jeff Carpenter
July 11, 2005 at 7:50 pm

Ah, that sounds like what I’m talking about, Bryce.

I’m not in front of my Mac either, which explains the incorrect term. Thanks!
Tim Baker
July 11, 2005 at 8:00 pm

I have something similar that may or may not apply.

I just did the upgrades of Tiger and FCP 5…I could not figure out why everytime I dropped something into a sequence…it had to be rendered.

I got to looking in the motion and audio tabs and for some unknown reason to me…when I dropped clips into the timeline…it randomly added info into some of the tab fields. Once I reset to defaults or zero…dependent on the setting that was changed…tadaaaahhhh…I no longer had to render and video did not look distorted.

Any one experienced this like me and I am thinking that is what may be the problem here.

Tim Baker
Chameleon Mobile Video Productions
(239)849-3295
“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.”
Alex May
July 11, 2005 at 8:29 pm

WOW! That’s it!

Thank you! Just stuck it on 0!

Any idea how I can do it to all cuts?!
Bryce Whiteside
July 11, 2005 at 9:53 pm

I would copy the corrected clip and paste only attributes with Motion attributes selected to selected new clips.

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion
Alex May
July 12, 2005 at 4:57 pm

Not to worry, it’s all cool, thank you guys, you’re a real help!

Regards

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