[Nick Meyers]

no, your tv or player is cropping it a bit.
shouldn’t be much though?

can i ask what it’s all in aid of?

n

[Nick Meyers]

as mentioned before, domestic HD TVs are very random in their setups.
there are very few hard and fast standards,
so i don’t know if anyone will be able to give you a very solid answer.

why don’t you test it yourself?

knock up a test frame in FCP,
make a DVD,
and play it on your system

nick

[Nick Meyers]

and HD

[Nick Meyers]

[Bobby Hall] “There are black bars on all four sides”

you have your TV set up wrong

[Nick Meyers]

maybe …
a little bit.

in the film days even cinemas would have cropped a bit off the edges.
it was random, and most likely still is
so people know not to frame really important rings right on the edges of the frame.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Warren:

how is this better than other solutions: MPeg Streamclip, or FCP itself?

Bronwyn:
as you are not changing the frame size or frame rate you don’t need to use the frame controls.
not sure that will solve your particular issue.

Shane:
are you saying it’s best to just upload an uncompressed version?
i thought (or hopped, perhaps?) that if one hit the Vimeo settings sweet-spot they did not re-encode

[Nick Meyers]

yes, Shift F from Timeline and/or viewer.

what happens when you hit Shift F?

nick

[Nick Meyers]

also, the rotational speeds of the two shots are slightly off,
adjusting speeds would be the hardest and give you unwanted artefacts,

simply keyframing the left / right position of one shot would be the simplest.
it;s not impossible in FCP doing it manually, (quite simple, really)
but using one of the tracking tools in motion should be more accurate.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

most basic way is to keyframe the crop

if that doesn’t give you enough control, the next level up is to keyframe a garbage matte, 4 point, or 8 point

both of these approaches have issues due to FCP not having much control over the feathering: it’s universal, same feather on al sides including the edges of teh frame where no stitching is required.

one way is to layer a feathered version on top of a non-feathered version with a slightly offset animation,

if you’re very lucky a wipe transition might work, but you;d have the least amount of control over that.

or use motion

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“Should i change my sequence setting to 44khz or leave it at 48khz?”

you should convert the audio to 48k

“it seems to be playing in stereo now even though the right and left channels are linked with a pan setting of -1. ”

yep, that’s FCP way of designating Stereo on a Stereo clip.
+1 will reverse the left & right

nick