What the hell happened to my 16:9?

[David Roth weiss]

Iain,

You need to start at the beginning. What’s your video material? What are your timeline settings?

You can’t just throw stuff into a timeline and start changing settings — the settings should be properly set before you edit material to the timeline.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Bret Williams]

Border guidelines? What is that?

[Ed Dooley]

Here in Vermont, close to the Canadian border, “border guidelines” means something totally different, I think. 🙂
I assume he means the title and action-safe guides, but hey, ya never know!
Ed

[Bret Williams] “Border guidelines? What is that?”

[Iain Mackinnon]

Right, sorry guys.
When you look at the canvas you have an interior box, an exterior box and then full screen.
I logged footage shot in 16:9 and captured using DV PAL anamorphic.
when i bring it into the timeline, it’s a 4:3 screen.
sorry for confusion. need to know anything else?

I used to spend my time wondering, now it’s all used up rendering.

[Josh Olenslager]

Make sure that your imported media and sequence settings are PAL DV anamorphic. There’s an “anamorphic” column in your browser window. Scroll over to it and select it–a check-mark will appear.

Josh

Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion

[David Roth weiss]

[Iain MacKinnon] “when i bring it into the timeline, it’s a 4:3 screen. “

Simple, your timeline settings are not set properly. You need to open a new timeline, and check the anamorphic checkbox in Sequence>>Settings. Then begin editing.

If you’ve already edited a lot, change the setting as above, then set distort to “0” for all clips in the Motion tab.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

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

[Iain Mackinnon]

Many thanks. sorted David.

I used to spend my time wondering, now it’s all used up rendering.

[Kai Mariah]

Hi.
My name is Kai Mariah. I’m 13 years old and I’m a filmmaker. Currently I’m working on an animated film. I’m doing the animation in DAZ Studio – the setting is 16:9.

What should the settings be in Final Cut Pro so that the final rendered product is widescreen?

When I bring it in it looks right on the screen but when I render it and burn it to a DVD it still looks like a full screen version instead of widescreen.

Thanks for you help.
Kai