[Kimberley West]

Sonnet has some thunderbolt 2 enclosures that take various numbers of cards. I haven’t looked into it too much though.

[Kimberley West]

Thanks Jeremy

That worked a treat for the first clip (so hopefully it will for the others).
Do you know why I had the issues I did and how this fixed it?
After I posted this morning I noticed that only in my system my audio had the green render lines on it.

…oh well…so much for my conspiracy theory…

Thanks again Jeremy.

[Kimberley West]

Hey Brad
How are you previewing your edit? One thing I’ve seen (and done) is setting the preview out of FCP to full screen on a computer monitor – which is a higher resolution than SD and, depending on the monitor, also higher than HD.
Another thing it might be is conflicting pixel aspect ratios – i.e. PSD in non-square pixels and FCP in square pixels (or vice versa).

If the lower thirds are very simple then maybe the FCP lower thirds titler will suffice but if you want a bit more control over your text then maybe the Boris title tool would be better.

I hope this has helped.

Kimberley.

[Kimberley West]

To anyone that was wondering about this issue from half a year ago:

I’ve just loaded up FCP 7 and thought “why not try this annoying title distortion thing again to see if Apple have fixed the problem….”

And it looks like they have!

I’ve only done two tests, one with the Boris titling tool and one with the FCP titling tool – and they both look correct in an aspecty kind of way…which is all good!

[Kimberley West]

Hey John

Thanks for your response.

Every time I get new clips in I create a new FCP project and new 16:9 or 4:3 sequences (depending on the clips) and then I only create the titles for that specific aspect ratio – I would copy and paste the widescreen titles in the widescreen sequence but I wouldn’t paste them into the 4:3 sequence (I’ve learnt from that mistake in the past).
It’s good to know that what I’m doing is not insanely roundabout so I think I’ll probably steer clear of your xml remedy – It would be a much longer way around this since I have no interns to palm the boring stuff off to. But thanks for the alternative.

It’s a shame there doesn’t seem to be a solution to this.
A colleague of mine has a theory that it has something to do with the FCP title not actually having a set number of video lines and so on export, FCP or Compressor TRIES to interpret this (not very well obviously) and that’s why the aspect is slightly off. He thinks (and it’s very probably true but I haven’t tried it) that if I used Photoshop to make the titles it would probably work. I’ll try it next time I get some music clips in.

Thanks for your help again John.