[David May]

Perfect!

I figured it would be something like that, thanks for the tip. As Im in Australia Id usually go for PAL, but seeing as all this is HD it doesnt matter right? 24 and 30 strike me as far more accepted frame rates than 25 and 50.

Thanks again!

[David May]

Thanks for the advice, I can do the same thing by just copying the timeline into a new sequence. In both cases everything is rescaled to 133% and has its aspect distorted to fit. Bizarre seeing as the original files are 1920×1080 and shouldnt need to be zoomed etc

Anyways, its not a significant quality drop, just a minor frustration.

I appreciate all the help!

[David May]

Not 100% sure what you mean, but if you tell me I could give it a shot?

[David May]

Well Ive just started a new 1920×1080 sequence with square pixels, no field dominance. Annoyingly all my footage, which is 1920×1080 in the original files, needs to be zoomed to 133.3 scale and have the aspect ratio changed under the distortion option in the motion tab. At least its free of the blur and is the correct size.

If I do as you say Walter, the only option available to me in easy setup is one ProRes preset, 1440×1080 (not square pixel) and an editing timebase of 23.97.

Again, if I manually change the sequence settings to 1920×1080, square pixels etc, all the footage is resized. But if I have it set to 1440×1080, square pixels, all the footage appears 4:3. Frustration!

I dont want to have to make do with a zoomed in project, but its starting to look like I have no choice 🙁

[David May]

I understand what your saying. The footage has always matched the sequence settings and I told FCP to make the timeline the same settings as the video when I started the project. However the files in my capture scratch are 1920×1080 and FCP made the project 1440×1080, so obviously its choosing the wrong settings for some reason.

For some reason though as soon as I change the settings away from ProRes 422, Upper, 1440 etc, the video needs to be rendered to be useable. Annoying

If your interested, the first image is captured from FCP’s viewer, the second is the exact same video exported using ‘current settings’. Big difference as you can see

https://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w219/thepumpkinslayer/?action=view&current=Screenshot2011-09-29at73156PM.png

https://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w219/thepumpkinslayer/?action=view&current=Screenshot2011-09-29at73341PM.png

[David May]

Thanks for the quick response!

So if the best settings for my timeline is 1920×1080, upper field order and square pixels, why does the footage automatically set the timeline to something different?

If I change the settings now to square pixels, all the footage ends up going into 4:3, needs to be rendered and Ill have to resize it, so this time Ill just export out of compressor. Just be good to know why this is happening so in future I know what to look out for…. Or I get a new camera, thats also nice to think about.

Thanks for helping out by the way, these forums are amazing!

[David May]

Very helpful, thanks for the great article!

Dave

[David May]

Thanks for the help!

All turned out very well

[David May]

Thanks for the advice

none of the footage is SD though, most of it comes straight of a 5d MKII and is conformed to Prores.

Ill be making it SD once I run it through compressor, just wanted to know that if I leave the field order on the project as none, wont have any issues when I turn it into MPEG2

[David May]

An email confirms you were right on the money.

Great bit of software, cant wait to use it properly!

Thanks for the help