[Chet Wesley]

That looks like it should work. Thanks.

[Chet Wesley]

Thanks Jason,
Yes, I understand that it is basically the aspect ratio of the pixels, so it is the same resolution whether it is 4:3 or 16:9, just that the pixels are displayed differently. Anyway, I think that this thread has answered all of my questions in a round about way.

I didn’t know about the anamorphic check box before, and that has solved my problem so far.

Andy

[Chet Wesley]

Yes, that was my first question, thanks for answering it, because I may need to do that as well anyway, independent of the issues of laying to tape.

[Chet Wesley]

Thank you for your advice.

The strange thing is that I did not know the footage was supposed to be 16:9 until after I had it in the computer and I was looking at it more closely, so I doubt I made the choice purposely, though maybe it was just good luck(?).

Thanks again.

[Chet Wesley]

The thing is that final cut DID automatically recognize this video as 16:9 once it was captured. I did not set anything to 16:9 when capturing, and the footage fills the 720×480 frame on the tape, yet when you bring up the video in the viewer, it displays it in 16:9.

Also, my concern is not so much how it will come out on a monitor as whether it will capture automatically to 16:9. Though, if it doesn’t the person on the other end can always change the clip settings.

[Chet Wesley]

In that case, is there any difference between 16:9 footage that has been squished to 4:3 and 16:9 footage printed from a 16:9 anamorphic sequence to a 4:3 tape stock?

[Chet Wesley]

6.0.1

Although I can now see how that works, it is amazingly unintuitive. If you have the auto select on for a track already, it will not paste to it unless that is the track you copied from (in which case it isn’t using the autoselect anyway). You have to turn it off and then back on.

I like Final Cut a lot — more than any other video editing application I have used, but in some ways, I think they could take some hints from the ways that some audio multi track applications function in relation to dealing with multiple tracks… like just click on the track before you paste to it, or something like that, rather than having a toggle which doesn’t actually act like a toggle.

I guess they wouldn’t want to freak out all the video veterans though by suddenly doing it in a way that makes sense.

[Chet Wesley]

Same problem here… anyone know how to get around this?

[Chet Wesley]

I’ve opened projects from old versions of FCP in express, but I don’t know about current ones. I think as long as the version of express is newer than the version of FCP… but seeing as they don’t update express as often as pro, that can be a problem. XML may be your best bet.

[Chet Wesley]

Thanks, that is very helpful info…
So the question is, how would a person get four channels to tape in the first place?

I assume they would also have to make two passes when printing to tape as well… would you have to use “edit to tape” to do the second pass? I have never actually had a reason to use that feature, so I don’t know much about it.

Seems like this is too complicated to be worth it (sending a quicktime with a few extra aiff audio tracks seems like it would be a lot more effective).