[Jesse Levine]

Thanks for the reply. Any luck exporting markers out to text files and then importing them back in as a way to move markers from sequences to clips and back?

[Jesse Levine]

I solved the problem that brought me to post by control clicking on a clip and removing attributes. That seemed to clear any attachment to a previous sequence and its settings.

However, you’ve brought up an important fact – one that I was hoping would not be a big deal. The way I converted my files using streamclip. I’ve been meaning to run this by someone and would really appreciate your perspective. Sorry if this gets a little involved.

I tried using the apple pro res 422 compression and 1920×1080 16:9 frame size format, un clicked interlaced scaling – but it wasn’t running on my last set up. I was running fcp 6 on my IMAC. I’m now running fcp 7 on the same IMAC.

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz

From what I read its very hard to notice the difference between the 1440×1080 and 1920×1080 – unless your messing with lots of effects and filters etc. So I tried the compression of apple pro res 422 but frame size of 1440×1080 4:3, and still unclicked interlace. This was working better so converted some of my files to that setting. I was confused by the fact that 1440×1080 setting from streamclip converter was 4:3 rather than 16:9 – which I thought might be a problem.

The thing is it hasn’t been a problem! The video looks fine. The sequence settings that fcp recommends for my clips is all 1440x1080HD, anamorphic option not checked… So everything looks fine to me.

Two questions. Will my present format give me problems down the line?! Will converting it to 1920×1080 make it look much better?!

I’m looking for ways to do this that make sense on my computer with out making mistakes that will really cause me problems down the line, exporting, or make real sacrifices to the quality.

At the moment I’m kind of still in, learning, testing, mode because this is really quite a big documentary project – and i’m obviously a novice here. So I haven’t converted all my files to anything yet but am working with a limited group of files. Am I totally off base with my conversion to 1440×1080

Thank you very much!