Jeff Carpenter
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I understand your post because I’ve had it happen too!
Yes, it’s recent for me as well. I’m assuming it was introduced in a recent update.
As of now, I have no solution.
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The next time you start the final cut project, it’s going to say it can’t find the footage. Just click ‘Locate’ and see what clip it’s asking for. Navigate to it on the external drive and pick it.
At that point it should see all the others and re-link them all. So you should only need to find one clip.
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So Final Cut and Quicktime work differently?
Lovely.
I can get used to just about anything, but inconsistency is pretty annoying!
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HDV is an anamorphc format. It contains 1440×1080 pixels, but it is shown at 1920×1080.
Final Cut is simply exporting the pixels you have and leaving them alone.
You can fix it by using a photo-editing application to re-size it to 1920×1080 (or 1440×810).
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You should use the Easy Setup called NTSC – Anamorphic.
If you didn’t do that this time, you can fix it.
In the bin, find the sequence you’re working in and right-click it. Select ‘Item Properties’ and find the ‘Anamorphic’ line. Make sure it’s checked “on.”
After you’ve checked that, does the video still look right? It’s not distorted in any way? If it’s good, you’re fine. Just follow the advice in the last post. If it’s wrong, explain what’s wrong with it.
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This is an anamorphic project? Meaning, the viewer in Final Cut shows a 16:9 image and not a letterboxed one?
For exporting, use the ‘Quicktime Conversion’ setting and then manually change the frame size to something 16:9. I suggest 480×270.
As for tape, it’s quite possible that it IS going to tape correctly. And by that I mean it’s putting a squeezed image that fills the 4:3 frame. It’s very possible that the GL1 knows it’s anamorphic and is thus SHOWING it as letterboxed on the viewscreen so that the picture looks correct. In other words, it might be the camera viewfinder that’s making the letterbox.
When you play the GL1 tape out to a TV with an analog cable, what happens? Is there a menu setting to change the aspect ratio on the analog output? What happens when you do that?
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That’s what Compressor is for.
From Final Cut, export directly to Compressor and you can save as many pre-sets as you like and organize them by folders.
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Need a little more info here…
What does “exported to tape” mean? Did you put it back on the GL1? If so, why did you export to MP4 first?
Or are you putting it onto some other tape format?
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While I don’t think “legal” is quite the right word to use (no one will arrest you) it is against Apple’s rules. This simply means you won’t get any help from them if anything doesn’t work right.
At any rate, why would you? I don’t even know the details here but I have to imagine you’re going to take a speed hit from the emulation. You’d be far better off either getting a Mac for Final Cut or Adobe Premiere for the PC. Either way is fine…when it comes to video you’re going to want the best performance you can get.