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Zooming into an HD frame for an SD sequence
I hope the subject title is accurate. I’d like to take a portion of a 1080p HD frame and use that in a 480p timeline without having to expand the SD frame to get what I want. Since an Anamorphic 720×480 frame is only 44% as big as my 1920×1080 sq. pixel frame is there a way to take a piece of it and keep it just as large as it is in the original HD frame but in an SD timeline? Is it as simple as zooming in on the original HD frame and dropping that into the SD sequence? I sort of tried that already but it still seemed way too pixelated.
Dropping the HD clips into an SD timeline won’t do it because FCP 6 will conform the clip to match the SD sequence even before rendering, so any pan and scanning done there will result in zooming in way more than 100%. There’s probably a simple way to do it that I’m not getting. Any help would be appreciated.
TIA
– Don
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[Don Greening] “Dropping the HD clips into an SD timeline won’t do it because FCP 6 will conform the clip to match the SD sequence even before rendering, so any pan and scanning done there will result in zooming in way more than 100%.”
Don, are you drinking and editing at the same time again?
Drop your HD clip onto to your SD timeline and scale down as much as you wish, or up to 100%. FCP doesn’t do anything untoward to it.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Don, are you drinking and editing at the same time again? “
That sure made my wife and I laugh.
I’ll try rendering some of the SD timeline and see if that gets rid of the pixelation issue. Thanks for responding.
– Don
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[Don Greening] “That sure made my wife and I laugh.”
Phew!!! Always to hear that, cuz some Cows it seems are born without a sense of humor.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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