Dennis Leppell
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I used camera setting ‘squeeze’ and shot on tape. The recording setting was
This is also known as anamorphic. It is 16:9 ‘squeezed’ to 4:3
I am importing to Final Cut Pro, but the footage looks like 4:3. Why is this?
In your easy setup when you capture, select (Pal or NTSC) Anamorphic. Since you’ve already captured the footage, change your easy setup, then create a new sequence. Drag the footage to the new sequence, everything should be good. If not, double click a clip on the timeline, and select the motion tab. Adjust the distort settings. It should be at -33.33%, but could be 12.5 or 50, depending on format and sequence setting! When it look right, right click, copy, then select all clips, right click, and select paste attributes. Select the distort setting, and every clip should now be adjusted properly.
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Look into the limit effect option on the 3-way color filter.
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Set your sequence easy setup to DV NTSC Anamorphic.
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If I understand from the original post, you are trying to lay off HD material in a SD format (Beta).
Set your Easy setup to DV NTSC Anamorphic.
Drop the HD commercial on the timeline. Double check that the video fills the sequence frame. Shift fields should be automatically added.
Render.
Edit to tape or Print Video (your choice).
Gets the job done without needing the extra hardware. I don’t know how much difference there is in quality between FCP and AJA’s hardware downrez.
There’s a funny little quirk in FCP that if you are routing your monitor through a DV deck, and the DV deck is connected to your computer via firewire, you can monitor HD material in realtime if you set your Easy Setup to DV NTSC. The image on the monitor is pretty low rez, but it’s better than nothing. I like to set my sequence up as a HD sequence, Then switch the easy setup to DV NTSC.
Before I get blasted by the others for working in such a crippled way, I remind you guys when there’s no money for the proper equipment (no matter how much I pester the boss for it), we gotta do what we gotta do.
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when you consider upload time + subscription for premium level cloud-like storage to hand a file that size, it will be quicker and cheaper to burn the file to DVD and send it UPS.
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don’t use the trim edit mode….personally I’ve found that mode pretty worthless.
In your final sequence, hover your cursor over the end of one of your nested sequences. The cursor icon will change. Now, click and drag the end of the nested sequence….a little yellow info box should pop up indicating how much you are now trimming the end, as well as the “new” duration of the clip/sequence.Repeat the process for the next, incoming clip/sequence.
as for duration of transition, if you double click the transition in the effects tab, it will load in the viewer. same goes for it you double click a transition on the timeline. If you look in the upper left corner of the viewer, you will see the duration of the transition. Most likely the default will be 1 second. Highlight, delete, and input the new duration. then drag from the viewer (see that little icon in the upper right) to the edit point.
Hey moderators…can you move this to the basics forum? It really belongs over there.
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what Jeremy said, though any intel-based macbook pro WILL work. The bigger/faster/more ram the computer, the better your experience will be.
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1. Opinions are subjective, but I do the same thing fairly often.
2. Your sequences need to be trimmed a few frames on the heads and tails to put the transition in. Once the sequence is nested onto the timeline, trim it back about 5 frames at the end, and then trim the next one 5 frames at the beginning. Drop a 10 frame cross dissolve between them. If you want longer transitions, you need to trim the sequences more. If trimming the sequence affects the message/pacing/etc., open up said sequence and add a few frames on whichever end is affected to compensate. -
Create a new 4:3 sequence. Then, select the 16:9 sequence and drag that to the 4:3 timeline. Render and export.