[Mark Fanjoy]

Thanks for that, Adam. I’m sure they are right on and when you check against your monitors you will confirm that.

Being new to Andy’s guides I just wanted to bounce on someone out there for an opinion once I saw the behavior of his guides when dropped into the 4×3 sequence. But, they’re not designed to be dropped into a 4×3 sequence I reckon!

I’m going for it and going to start my session.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Adam, you were still on track with me. Yes, I would want to have the picture framing finalized before I dropped it into Compressor, which by the way, I still see as a valid direction.

My bigger problem is having the guides set correctly to know how far left or right I can shift my video picture (and place graphics) to be within that 4×3 area. Andy’s guides look productive, but I’m not quite sure I’m inserting them correctly.

When I dropped Andy’s guide into a 4×3 sequence from a previous project, his guide lines do not line up with that 4×3 sequence. So now I’m a little gun shy about the accuracy of that guide for my 16×9 sequence. Maybe his coding factors in the sequence settings and adjusts display of the guides accordingly. So, if I drop the guides into a 4×3 sequence, the code still adjusts to its code presets (thinking its a 16×9 sequence) and displays the lines, which are squeezed way inside the 4×3 range.

I don’t know.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Okay, that’s exactly what I was just sitting here tinkering with until I learned if there was a setting. Even though it’s a lot of manual adjusting, I like staying within FC to the final look and then output as it is.

Thank you very much for your support, Tom. Appreciated.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Adam, thanks for the tip. It worked great. Now I can at least output samples of my edit and view the “look” to see how I’m doing with graphics, and some video left/right shifting.

Tom, if I may, I’d like to try your direction too. I’ve created a 4×3 sequence setting and dropped my edited 16×9 sequence video into that sequence. It formats the video in proportion great, but it creates a letterbox effect, which is what I’m trying to avoid.

Is there a sequence setting I’m missing that will adjust the video to true 4×3 full framing?

Thanks.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Outstanding, Andy! Thank you. And thanks for your generosity in supplying the plugins. Very cool of you!

My next task is down-converting the 16×9 to a 4×3 output format. But I need to crop left and right instead of letterbox format (basically full screen without video stretch).

Searching threads now, but only finding instructions on converting with letterbox format.

Any ideas and direction is appreciated.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Thanks, Tom. Since I haven’t seen a reason at my level of editing to justify upgrading, do you have a customized work-around idea? I’m thinking build the bars in Photoshop and output an overlay reference file to drop into a layer when adding graphics, then remove it when satisfied. Make sense? Or are there plugins out there that already provide a filter for this?

Thanks again.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Hey, HEY!! I suddenly had the “Preview” problem, did a search, found this thread about the “symbol” format in the drive name, changed the name, and PRESTO! I can see preview again!

You guys are good! Thanks for solving my problem without having to bother a soul!

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Found this thread in the search and I have a question.

I can only get 4 “Open Recent” project files to display. Each new one drops the oldest. “User Preferences/List Recent Clips” is set to 10. Am I adjusting the wrong setting” Are these two items unrelated? Is FCP set to an unchangeable default of listing only 4 recent projects to open?

Thanks in advance.

Mark Fanjoy

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Hey, Ken. Thanks for the heads up and direction. Helpful and much appreciated.

Looks like it is the Flip4Mac free version limiting my output. Strange that I’ve got to purchase a third party software to fulfill a codec option listed in the FC menu. But maybe that option is only there because I HAVE Flip4Mac installed. Hmmm. Well, the client needs WMV. I need to deliver, so I need to purchase!

Thanks again.

Good luck!

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Here’s one more thing I just discovered while testing. ALL videos are being cut off at :30 seconds in.

By the way, I’m on Mac with Final Cut Studio.

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