[Jordan Wilson]

Copying all the clips and pasting them into a new project worked. I’ve used this solution before…. don’t know why I didn’t try it before posting.

Thanks, though!

[Jordan Wilson]

I did this…..

Set the sequence settings to 720/30

However, when I dragged my 1080/30 footage onto the timeline, the 1080/30 looked a bit choppy

[Jordan Wilson]

Yup… basic motion+distort worked wonders and saved me hours.

Thanks so much for the help on this! Much appreciated.

[Jordan Wilson]

Sweet! Thanks Shane. I think this solved 90 percent of my re-importing issue.

When I did clicked “Basic Motion”, here’s what I got:

There’s still a tad of black pillar boxing above/below. So I tried also checking “Distort” Here’s what I got:

So I think this takes care of the whole black box issue, and now it’s in 1080 (I believe?)

The thing I’m wondering is in format it says 1920×1080 (1888×1062) Millions. Should that 1888×1062 read 1920×1080?

Thanks again.

[Jordan Wilson]

Thanks for the feedback (and ribbing). Need that to get better (and get my act together)

I did the whole drag a clip in and click yes before. Not sure why I didn’t do it this time.

So, now I’m faced with a problem because of my lack of preparing the sequence correctly.

I saved and closed my project. I opened a new project file and dragged one 1080p clip onto the timeline. FCP asked me if I wanted to convert settings. I said yes.

So now I have the proper settings on my new project. Great. BUT…. I can’t get my old project to take on the new settings. I tried in two ways.

First, I tried copy and pasting all of the files from my old project over to my new project (the one with the proper settings). When I do this, here’s what it looks like in final cut:

And obviously when I export, it looks like this:

So in my sequence settings, I have the correct settings, but apparently it’s carrying over some previous settings?

The second way I tried was to manually change the settings in my (incorrectly configured) project file. Once I manually enter the correct settings (the settings that pop up after FCP asks me if I want to change my settings), I get the same problem.

So no matter which way I change the settings, it brings up the small version of the video….

I tried from scratch, with unedited clips, and everything works fine. However, I just can’t copy-and-paste my old files from the incorrect project file. And I don’t want to start over from scratch and lose all my edits….

[Jordan Wilson]

Thanks for this…. I’ll take a closer look at this during my next project.

[Jordan Wilson]

That does help, thanks.

Do you know of any examples of 1080 30p slo-mo? I haven’t been really wowed by the 720 60p slo-mo (FCP Cmd+J)

[Jordan Wilson]

Tried isolating in the middle and end. Nada.

However, hitting SSS works then I can drag it. That solves half the problem…. so I’m in better shape than yesterday.

Now, I just need to get the change speed to work so I can put in a custom duration and have the speed change accordingly.

Right now, the duration box is grayed out and I can’t move anything?

[Jordan Wilson]

Thanks.
I was using XDCam because Philip Bloom used it in one of his tutorials.

I’ve never used compressor…. so I’ll have to look into that. Thanks.

[Jordan Wilson]

Ah-ha! Thanks Amir. Got it!