[Joey Orr]

This is not exactly what you’re asking but it may help – I recently had some PAL DV in a 1080 project which had been incorrectly ARC’d by the offline editor. To correct the aspect ratio of the clip (and avoid having to look up the correct figure for the aspect ratio slider in the motion tab) I dragged the clip out of the sequence into a bin and then dragged it back into the 1080 timeline. FCP automatically sorted the aspect ratio conversion for me. Fast and dirty – which is how it should be after all. I think there’s good info about pixel aspects of various formattes in the manuals that came with the software.

Joe Orr

Mac Pro Octo 2.26 16Gb Ram (Purchased Sept ’09)
SL 10.1.6
ATI 4870
Kona LHe
640GB Startup
1TB Internal Storage
2TB SCSI Raid Storage
Tangent Wave
FCP Suite 3 (FCP 7.0, Color 1.5)

[Joey Orr]

I had this problem recently. I had some PAL DV in a 1080 project that had been incorrectly ARC’d by the offline editor. To correct the aspect I dragged the clip out of the sequence into a bin and then dragged it back into the 1080 timeline. FCP automatically sorted the aspect ratio conversion for me. Fast and dirty – which is how it should be after all. I think there’s good info about all things formatty in the manuals that came with the software.

Joe Orr

Mac Pro Octo 2.26 16Gb Ram (Purchased Sept ’09)
SL 10.1.6
ATI 4870
Kona LHe
640GB Startup
1TB Internal Storage
2TB SCSI Raid Storage
Tangent Wave
FCP Suite 3 (FCP 7.0, Color 1.5)

[Joey Orr]

I recently took an LHe out of my old G5 running FCP suite 2 and installed it in a brand new system with no problem – see my signature below. Not a great deal of help I know but it proves LHe does work with FCP7!

What is your system configuration?
Have you installed the latest drivers for the card?
Have you tried trashing prefs?
How exactly did you do the upgrade?
Have you tried opening the capture window with no deck connected?
What flavour of Beta deck are you using?
Are you controlling the deck via a Fire wire or RS422 lead?

I guess we need a little more info about your setup…

Scarab

Mac Pro Octo 2.26 16Gb Ram (Purchased Sept ’09)
SL 10.1.6
ATI 4870
Kona LHe
640GB Startup
1TB Internal Storage
2TB SCSI Raid Storage
Tangent Wave
FCP Suite 3 (FCP 7.0, Color 1.5)

[Joey Orr]

I’ve had success creating MP4s from 1080 50i Prores 422 HQ files using Sorenson Squeeze 4.5. I cut and graded a 3 min launch film to be looped on a PS3 on a 103 inch plasma at a motor show and the results were stunning. My understanding – which is flakey at the best of times – is that an MP4 for the PS3 needs to be compressed using the AVC Pro codec (what ever that is) which isn’t available in compressor.

Here are my more relevant Sorenson Squeeze settings:

Format Constraints: None
Stream Type: Non – Streaming
Codec: Sorenson AVC Pro
Data Rate: 240000 Kps
Frame size: 1920 x 1080
Key Frame Every 10 frames

I recall that the PS3 wouldn’t initially see the file on the memory stick which I used to transfer from Mac to PS3. I had to hit “show all” on the PS3’s browser menu to reveal it for copying to the HD. I would also suggest keeping the file name short and simple with no spaces.

Let us know if and how you’re able to crack it. In fact you’re welcome to send me a short sample of the sequence for a test squeeze!

Hope this helps,

Joe

N.B.
As far as I’m concerned encoding, compressing and transcoding files is a black art and I aint no witch doctor so excuse me if some of what I say is mumbo jumbo. All those digital evangelists out there who are more enlightened than I please feel free to correct my sinful ways.

Happy all hallows eve….

[Joey Orr]

Just to clarify the aspect ratio of the footage in the timeline is converted using a combination of “Scale” and “aspect ratio” (look in the “Distort” twirly) controls found in the motion tab. The 4:3 to 16:9 ARC is outlined by Alex Elkins earlier in this thread – there isn’t an “ARC” button as such in the motion tab.

Scarab

Mac Pro Octo 2.26 16Gb Ram (Purchased Sept ’09)
SL 10.1.6
ATI 4870
Kona LHe
640GB Startup
1TB Internal Storage
2TB SCSI Raid Storage
Tangent Wave
FCP Suite 3 (FCP 7.0, Color 1.5)

[Joey Orr]

Once you’ve set up your aspect ratio correction (ARC) using the motion tab you can save it as a “motion favorite”, found in the Effects pull down menu. As well as being available in the pull down menu it’s also available as a key stroke combination allowing you to quickly bash through your sequence using just the keyboard. You can save up to 9 different motion favorites which is great for differing head room settings, re-size amounts etc. I’ve actually re-mapped my 1 to 9 keys (above the Qwerty keys) as motion favorites with zero as “make motion favorite”. This is one of the few features of FCP which (in my opinion) speeds up work flow compared to other non-linear edit suites… or even some tape suites I’ve worked in!

Hope that helps!

Scarab

Mac Pro Octo 2.26 16Gb Ram (Purchased Sept ’09)
SL 10.1.6
ATI 4870
Kona LHe
640GB Startup
1TB Internal Storage
2TB SCSI Raid Storage
Tangent Wave
FCP Suite 3 (FCP 7.0, Color 1.5)

[Joey Orr]

“He is what is called an “easter egg,” hidden code in the software.”

…Maybe one day the programmers of Final Cut Pro will take it upon themselves to hide some code in the software that actually works.

Scarab