Andy Mees
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not strictly what you’re looking for, but you’re welcome to try this if you think it might help:
https://homepage.mac.com/andymees/Free-and-Easy/FileSharing5.htmlor you may have better luck with the infinitely more flexible and professional
https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/readXML/index.html -
FCP 5.1.2 does now offer some verty limited scripting hooks into FCP, but these are primarily targeted at automating workflows using XML … if thats a method by which you could get the job done more efficiently then you might want to look into the upgrade. other than that you’re limited to UI Scripting, which, whilst doable, is far from the most straightforward scripting method.
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download here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tvbranding/picturesize.shtmldigital heaven’s widescreen safe plugin looks great, but whilst most of their tools and plugins represent fantastic value for money, this one seems to be amongst a few that are somewhat overpriced
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if you have a powerful enough tower you can (almost) get them even without 5.1.2 using Opt-P
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a free vignette effect plug-in, by Marcus Herrick, can be downloaded here: https://www.haiku.com.au/fcp_plugs/Marcus_plug.zip
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hmmm…. thats an interesting idea. Strictly speaking its SD only and not at all compatible with HD, but if we’re doing one-way (D1 to FCP) file transfer only its conceivable that it might work.
then again it might just spit the disk out if its not formatted correcty -
in your device contol preset (Final Cut Pro > Audio/Video Settings…) make sure you have Audio Mapping set to 4 channels
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hey paulmc
this is an extremely common dumb mistake … in future, should you come across it again, you can save yourself alot of work by first selecting everything in the timeline, and then pressing cmd-opt-v to invoke “remove attributes” window. select “distort” and press return. caveat: this will reset all distort properties on all clips, so if theres any in there that you distorted on purpose, then you’ll have to go back and do those distortions again
cheers
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well, Alan, if he really wants it to look squashed then it would be fine … but who would actually want their pictures to look wrong on purpose? (especially if they are mixing it up with good stuff in the same timeline)
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Adam … no!
Unless I am very much misunderstanding you, that checkmark is there for a reason. It tells FCP that the native asect ratio of the source file is 16:9, and so FCP automatically treats it accordingly, in order to maintain the correct aspect. If you remove the anamorphic flag then FCP will not treat it correctly. Sure, it will display it as 4:3 but it isn’t, its 16:9.
The correct workflow is as previously suggested. Scale the 16:9 image up to 133% and reframe the centre cut as desired. Don’t remove the anamorphic flag or your image will fill the frame but be distorted. (Everyone and everything will be too tall and too thin)
Cheers
Andy