[Mark Devries]

Thanks so much for the information.

Right, I know 16:9 letterbox it’s actually 4:3. I still need to crop the non-letterboxed footage. I’ve never cropped footage before, but I assume there’s some realtively simple way to do it in Final Cut…

As for importing different frame rates, I thought that Final Cut Pro “6” (the version I have) was the first version to be able to take in footage with multiple frame rates and output it to one frame rate without the use of an outside program like Compressor. As long as the initial settings (and the output settings) allow it. (That’s why I was just concerned with making sure the settings are right.) Maybe I’m mistaken!?

I wonder if I can import any of the 24p (23.98) from a camera that doesn’t itself support filming in 23.98 (when I can’t bring along the deck, but need to import “in the field”). Is there a quality problem when importing from a camera? Conversely, I wonder if one can ever edit to tape or print to video onto a camera that is being used as a deck…