Andreas Kiel
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There is even an easier way.
Open the dupe in Motion click on the title bar to reveal in Finder.
Quit both FCP X and Motion.
Remove in Finder.-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
Anyway, Where is the hidden Stretch feature for FCPX?, Don’t take me to other apps! 😀 I’m Happy and I’m waiting….
There is no “hidden Stretch feature” in FCP X.
Prepare your source material in a way that it will work and match a given project.-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
Maybe I misunderstood.
But using a “plain vanilla” FCP X doesn’t make sense. And that made me laugh.You got source material which obviously has wrong aspect ratios and a bad codec for editing.
How should a NLE know what you want to do. Okay, the “Spatial Conform” in FCP X could have another option like “Fit and Fill”. But you will distort pixels in most cases. They will be eaten or changed.So why not using using a Compressor droplet to make your clips “edit friendly”.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
LOL
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
You can’t do that in the event. But you can select the affected clips and enter a new subrole like “bad Y”.
Once your clips are in the timeline select the “bad Y” role clips and scale them vertically all at once (1080/1040 is around 104%).Another option is – if there aren’t too many clips – open them in QT Player 7 and set the visual size to 1920 x 1080. This doesn’t cause any change of the file except its displayed in a different size.
-Andreas
Edit: I was wrong in your case with QT Player 7. It won’t let me save your movie.
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
You can’t do that in the event. But you can select the affected clips and enter a new subrole like “bad Y”.
Once your clips are in the timeline select the “bad Y” role clips and scale them vertically all at once (1080/1040 is around 104%).Another option is – if there aren’t too many clips – open them in QT Player 7 and set the visual size to 1920 x 1080. This doesn’t cause any change of the file except its displayed in a different size.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
I’m a bit late here.
But here some notes which makes things hopefully clearer.
Resampling and changing playback speed are two totally different things.
Samplerate for audio is the same as fps for video (not dpi for video) so let’s call it sps.You can record audio at any sampling rate. But let’s take 48 kHz and 32 kHz here.
Record 60 seconds. Once recorded both files as stand alone files will play 60 seconds.
But forced to play back in a NLE timeline with a fixed sps of 48 the first file will playback correctly. The second one will play at 2/3 of the time (32/48). The other way round the 48 sps file will play longer in a 32 sps timeline.
Now for those poor guys who have to work with NTSC:
A real world second is not a second in NTSC video world. Its 1001/1000 seconds.
So selecting a 48k sps audio preset in a timeline preset means that a real world audio of 60 seconds is only 1000/1001×60. That means that those 60 seconds are only 59.94 seconds long. Its too short.One way – if you stay strictly in NTSC – is to record audio with 48048 Hz. This way a real world 1 second audio will match a 1 second NTSC video.
Next option with BWAVE files is to change the playback settings in the BEXT header of the file. This won’t resample the file!!!Now about the TC. BWAVE doesn’t have a TC in a way you’re used when handling video. It has a timestamp in the header. This timestamp contains the Samples after Midnight. Based on that the NLE will convert this to TC which can be displayed. So in NTSC world this might give a wrong interpretation.
For example if you have a “Start TC” of 00:10:00:00 (thats what you see on your audio recorder) it means that using 48kHz the timestamp is at 600×48,000 = 28,800,000 samples. Since the real sampling rate in the timeline though is 48048 Hz you have to divide the source stamp by this number. This results in 9.99000999000999 minutes. So for a 23.976 fps project this is a TC of 00:09:59:10.So setting the Bext header and/or iXML chunk to the correct playback speed will keep everything intact. Again this is without resampling!
Using an AIFF there aren’t these options.So you can edit all the stuff without resampling when using BWAVE. But resampling will happen when you export a final movie.
I wrote a bit 8 years ago when FCP started to read BWAVE metadata. Many of the things are outdated but the article explains a bit what happens with BWAVE.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools
X-Files Pro, tools for working with FCPX
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/X-Files/index.html“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
Go to
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/textUp/index.htmland download the free version
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/textUp/TextUp2.zipUnzip the file. Go to “/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins/” and create a new folder “Spherico”.
Move the plugin into that folder.
Relaunch FCP. The Plugin will be found in the generator section under Spherico.-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools
X-Files Pro, tools for working with FCPX
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/X-Files/index.html“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
crtl-d is a good option – I mostly use it.
Also if a clip is selected and the Inspector is open you see the duration of the selected clip in the upper right of the Inspector window.
So there are many ways.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools
X-Files Pro, tools for working with FCPX
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/X-Files/index.html“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
There is no fcpxml import in 10.0 – upgrade to the actual version.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools
X-Files Pro, tools for working with FCPX
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/X-Files/index.html“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil