[Ley Wilson]

If anyone is interested I finally figured this out. Just read my last post on this forum link, Wow what a rabbit hole!

https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=110779&type=member&item=5839529404463595524&commentID=5839821912481480704&report.success=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_5839821912481480704

[Ley Wilson]

Thanks for the idea Nick. I tried it (adding a background layer) but couldnt get it to work. Then I even enlarged the canvas and sized the logo down, making the new background huge. But then when I imported it, the logo still came in squeezed just smaller.

So far below is the best solution so far, given to me on the SFCutters forum by:

“Marco Ramirez

Film/Video Production & Post-Production Artist

Are you bringing in the PS file or do you need to bring a logo in just for a simple overlay?

My initial guess is FCP thinks it’s anamorphic; I would render as PNG, it’s great for logos and graphics, and it will also be much lighter to process. Make sure to turn off any unwanted background fills in your PS file before rendering, PNG will carry transparent pixels.

Hope this helps…”

[Ley Wilson]

Yeah I;ve messed with every setting I can think of; image size, canvas size, pixel aspect ratio, etc. Nada!

[Ley Wilson]

Thanks Dave,

Yes I did. The logo even has a circle in it, so I could generate a circle (as a reference) then stretch this image’s circle over that till they match and know I had the right width. While also cracking up at FCP for not even being able to give me numbers for that stretching (x vs.y)

But obviously that solves nothing, it is just a quick fix. And the anal person inside me wants to know how to do it right. Just seems some things shouldn’t be that hard.

Especially since it comes from a PC .psd just fine

[Ley Wilson]

Thanks, I did have several other effects on there at the same time and then adjusted the scale but it didn’t show up. (If that’s what you are saying). However your explanation made sense so I applied the “transform” effect and did the push in there and it worked like a charm.

Thanks!

[Ley Wilson]

I cant find how you add “silence” in Premiere Pro, unless you were talking about Audition. Looking all over for the FCP equivilent “slug”.

Any suggestions?
Thanks!

[Ley Wilson]

I wouldn’t even try without confirmation first. When I edited a sequence into a sequence in FCP all throughout an edit, it finally crashed fcp permanently. Called a friend “Oh FCP hates that, you are just nesting constantly into the new sequence.”

Unfortunately FCP is not like Avid AT ALL in that area. You have to copy and paste parts from one sequence into another and use target tracking to put them where you want. So unless I knew what would happen definitively in PP I wouldn’t do it.