[Jeff Hall]

Thanks again guys. I really wish i could keep the matte on when I edit so i can just see how my clips look immediately with the letterbox matte on it. I guess I was just spoiled with Sony Vegas without having to worry about rendering issues. Everything just flowed and I just figured Final Cut definitely would. Oh well, I’ll deal 🙂

Thanks so much!

[Jeff Hall]

David, this video helped out a lot! I still have issues though. Anytime I add a transition effect it stays as unrendered (and i have settings at Unlimited RT) and I have to render it. And my second problem, which appears to be my worst, is I use a matte to create a letterbox for my video just the way I like it. With this matte any change i make to my clips has to be rerendered which just leads me back to my same old pain :(.

Is there any suggestions?

Thanks again for all the help.

[Jeff Hall]

Thank you so much fellas! Major help!

[Jeff Hall]

A good while and there is no status bar nor indicator that it’s doing any analyzing. I’m baffled. I’m following the instructions to do it but it appears there must be something specific preventing it from even starting.

[Jeff Hall]

Thanks for your response David. I’m actually using 7. How does it work differently in 7?

[Jeff Hall]

I actually just used one of your submitted letterbox plugins. Works like a charm! Thanks Andy for your support and patience.

[Jeff Hall]

Andy,

Thanks again for your suggestions. I believe my hardest struggle with going from Vegas all these years to FCP is that FCP lacks the “Event Pan/Crop” feature that Vegas had. If anyone here knew about this feature in Vegas they would probably understand half of my posts on here relating to croping, scaling, fitting the image just how you wanted by dragging the viewing space itself compared to dragging the handles of the actual clip. To FCP users this may sound backwards but me being a Vegas user FCP seems backwards to me haha. I’m just really struggling with how to get the results I did with Vegas by using FCP. Thanks for your help Andy. I’ll read into that tutorial.

Also the reason why I wish the wireframe was adjustable is because once I do get the cropped portion of the clip to fit the viewing space completely once i use the video filter “Widescreen” which I use a lot, it applies it to the wireframe… but if the wireframe is way out of the viewing space then the widescreen effect wont show. My lack of editing vocabulary probably doesn’t help my cause either haha 🙂

[Jeff Hall]

Thanks Andy, but I believe this still doesn’t solve my problem unless I appear to be missing something. I’d like my cropped clip to practically become it’s own clip with NO excess space in the wireframe. You know how the wireframe will fit the parameters of it’s original clip? Well id like that to be so once i’ve finished cropping that existing clip. This would make it easy for me to adjust the aspect ratio like I would a normal clip to fit my screen. I guess another way to ask the question would be is there any way to adjust the wireframe? To get the corners of the wireframe to fit my cropped clip? Because when I scale and center the wireframe still keeps the size of it’s once original clip.

[Jeff Hall]

Thank you so much!

[Jeff Hall]

Thank you Joey! This may really help me! So far many things in FCP are coming naturally to me because there are many similarities to Vegas and FCP (that I find atleast) BUT there are still so many things that FCP either does backwards or just does in a complete different fashion. I don’t remember seeing an Aspect Ratio Correction in the motion tab but I must have missed it. I wish I had my MacBook Pro with me to experiment and see but I guess i’ll have to wait till im off work. Saving it as a motion favorite is really going to help my cause.

SEPERATE QUESTION!!: Without starting another topic, how do you remove audio from an imported SD clip from the timeline completely? Since it was imported with the clip naturally it’s bound to the video clip. So once I select the audio clip it selects it’s bound video clilp and I want to remove the audio completely without just muting that audio section of the timeline. I know this is an easy fix it just works differently than Vegas it appears.