[Illusia Sarvas]

Hi Michael, and thanks for your answer.

I just checked the clip with VLC player as you suggested, and it says it’s 1920×1080. As did Compressor by the way. FCP is the only one that disagrees…

My problem was actually solved after they send me yet another clip. I don’t know what they did differently with the export, but this time the clip was fine and I could use it normally in FCP.

Is there a clear list of settings one should use when exporting from Avid to FCP? And if there is, where can I find it?

[Illusia Sarvas]

I’ll reply to myself. Managed to work around this problem by converting the file to ProRes in Compressor.

Still confused though, if you have any ideas, please tell me!

[Illusia Sarvas]

Hi Rainer,

I actually worked my way around the problem by dragging the clips to the sequence, unlinking and then relinking them and dragging them back to the bin. So the problem is “solved”, though I don’t know what caused it. I have the same material in two bins (original files and sync files), and the originals didn’t have the problem, but the ones in the sync bin did. Weird.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, I’ll check the settings once more if the problem appears again.

[Illusia Sarvas]

Hi Evan,

At the top of your canvas you have three little menu’s, the one on the right has settings such as image/wireframe and such. The problem could be that you have selected to view the alpha-channel instead of RGB.

Hope it’s this easy!

[Illusia Sarvas]

Hi Bret and thanks for your answer,

I’m pretty sure I’ve tested each and every different setting from the viewer, including the “fit the window” one. The funny thing is that when I zoom out the wireframe of the picture seems correct, but all I see is the middle of the image. Just like looking at the picture through a bit too small Christmas calendar window… Also, if I select “fit all” the viewer isn’t scaled to fit the wireframe (as it’s supposed to, I think), but the 4:3 picture.

I know 1440×1080 isn’t square and that’s why I’m ever more confused to notice that using that setting made the few distorted clips look ok.

At the moment none of the weirdly behaving clips have anamorphic checked, as I found out it didn’t do the trick. It just made things even messier…

Few more things I’ve tried:
– booting (and re-booting…)
– reconnecting the clips
– opening the project on another computer

No success.