[John Pale]

[Dennis Couzin] “The warning is missing from my FCP5 Manual.
It seems like a program glitch which, once discovered, Apple just documented instead of fixing.”

FCP 5 only has one quality for motion effects, and its not good. FCP 6 introduced the improved quality settings, I believe.

[John Pale]

I thought perhaps he stretched the 4:3 stuff to 16:9 in another program, like Motion or After Effects, and rendered a safe title grid into the image accidentally. I had a graphics guy do that to me by mistake once.

Apparently I was a wrong.

[John Pale]

[Dan Newton] “but what about if i added footage from another source — maybe like a quicktime mov file — do i need to delete that and then after its done with the 1:1 capturing of all the tapes to make the full edit — i just manually add the quicktime files to the duplicate —- and the same goes for music and pictures “

No. After recapturing the tape footage, you use the Batch Import command to re-import all that stuff at 1:1. You don’t need to manually re-edit the pictures and animations into place. You need to have all the Quicktime and/or graphics files you imported originally ready and available. You don’t need to do this if you already imported them the first time at 1:1… did you? or were they also imported and edited at 10:1?

And do look up Batch Import and Decompose in Media Composer Help. All of this and more is in there.

[John Pale]

[Dan Newton] “3. what happens to the extra stuff — such as music , pictures other footage as the 1:1 will only capture the footage that it recognizes “

Music and sound do not need to be recaptured. Many people duplicate the 10:1 sequence, remove the audio tracks, then do the Decompose. Then after capturing the video at 1:1, edit the audio back in from the original sequence.

Pictures, animations …. stuff not captured from tape are handled differently. If you imported this stuff at 10:1, then you need to select the sequence and use the Batch Import command to re-import this stuff at 1:1. In practice, there really is little reason to be editing this material at 10:1…as all recent Avid systems can mix resolutions without issue…just import all your pictures and animations at 1:1 to begin with…. yet some editors who started with Meridien or AVBV systems insist on doing it anyway. It’s not usually a problem, as you can batch import, but why create extra work for yourself?

You should look up the terms Decompose and Batch Import in Media Composer Help and read the appropriate sections thoroughly, in addition to following the advice here.

[John Pale]

This is a safe title overlay. Is it turned on in FCP? If it’s turned off and you still see it, its embedded in the video…not being generated by FCP.

Please explain how you “pre-stretched” the clips to fill an anamorphic frame. Tell us the exact methodology.

[John Pale]

Sure there is. Go into your filter tab and drag them

[John Pale]

The ‘old school’ Color Effect will clip your luminance and black level to legal (rather harshly), but does nothing to make your colors legal.

[John Pale]

Great tip. I am saving this one.

[John Pale]

You could post on Mandy (lo/no/deferred position) asking for someone willing to have their heart stopped. Indie film people love doing crazy stuff for no money.

🙂

[John Pale]

Copy/Paste all your clips into a NEW empty sequence that matches the sequence settings of your HD stuff. Use the Easy Setups…don’t try to set everything manually.

The original sequence may be corrupt in some way.

Definitely a weird problem.