[Andy Crowson]

Thanks for all responses guys – very useful…

Andy

[Andy Crowson]

Thanks for that- useful tips : I think the latter suits my purpose. To clarify – 25 titles in motion for 25 different videos. I wanted the photoshop images (5 each of 5 different colours) to appear in exactly the same place on all 25 titles.

Cheers, Andy

[Andy Crowson]

Thanks for suggestion, but not really. I have learned the hard way…

[Andy Crowson]

Yes – I did that, honestly! But it needed the final step as I described to work. Perhaps my machine is set up differently from yours… What about my query on exporting motion to retain anamorphic – any ideas?

Cheers, Andy

[Andy Crowson]

Got it! the last step was to open the Motion Project clip in the Final Cut Pro Viewer and select the Motion tab then click to open the disclosure triangle for the Distort parameters, then change the Aspect Ratio parameter from 33.33 to 0. But what about exporting the motion so that it retains the anamorphic settings I worked with? I have been making menus for the dvd in Motion and all the tifs are coming out 4:3 rather than anamorphic… Definitely need to be anamorphic to work…

[Andy Crowson]

… I need to get to the bottom of why the motion project is not turning out to be widescreen as I set it up when I drop it into FCP6 or export it. Any ideas?

[Andy Crowson]

Nice and easy – thanks. Now I’ll have to buy photoshop…

Cheers, Andy

[Andy Crowson]

Ok – thanks. I did all that , rendered, and still the motion title is not widescreen… Next suggestion??

[Andy Crowson]

Thanks – good tip. I did that, and the computer tells me that in fact the file I am clicking on is one of the other sub clips. When I play the sub clip independently, the footage from the ‘missing’ file is attached to the sub clip, i.e. FCP6 has not recognised the different scenes, and has amalgamated them into one clip. What is going on??? Any idea why this has happened and what I can do about it? The whole point of downloading this way was meant to be easier and less stress on the tape, so I could import clips into different projects. I’ve got three more tapes to split into sub clips and am reluctant to do so before knowing why this is happening. Ideas appreciated, thanks.

[Andy Crowson]

Thanks for your comment – I think there are some crossed wires here. All I want to ensure is that my anamporphic 16:9 footage appears in its entirety on a widescreen tv and a wide screen laptop. I’m new to FCP6, so am not sure of the settings, but I don’t understand the idea of the action-safe box if it is true that the image that goes beyond that action-safe box, as my footage does, will appear on a wide screen tv and wide screen laptop without black bars.