[Nick Meyers]

You put the 4×3 picture with SIZE AT 100% inside a 16×9 frame
Nothing is blown-up.
There are not Black bars nowhere.
The top and bottom of the picture are cropped.
rafael

Raphael, what do you mean by 16/9 frame?
if you mean a 16/9 sequence, then what you say doesn’t make any sense.

if you mean a 16/9 mask well, then there are black bars top & bottom

nick

[Nick Meyers]

no, only if the clips themselves are flagged as anamorphic.
otherwise you should get a 4/3 pillar-boxed image.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i think you should try it

nick

[Nick Meyers]

there’s a good chance it’s going to be screened as 16/9, so it’s got to be blown up somewhere.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Sasha’s method is best as you can individually re-frame each shot
but you don’t have to use the widescreen mask filter,

another approach would be to drop your finished film into a new timeline: same settings for everything but set to anamorphic.
oh, yes, and go into the sequence settings, Video Processing, and turn motion scaling to BEST

it wil most likely appear with black bars left & right (Pillar-boxing)

you need to BLOW UP your footage to 133.33%

just like Sasha’s method you can control each shot, adjusting the framing up or down, key framing it if needed,
even leaving some shots stretched wide if they work best that way.
(i have even dome some simple composting to make 4/6 shots work as 16/9)

main difference is you now have a 16/9 anamorphic version of your film,
not a 4/3 letter-boxed one.

which you chose depends on your delivery requirements.

oh, and back to the widescreen mask, it is MUCH easier to add a mask as an overlay on a track above your video , and reframe it underneath the mask

nick

[Nick Meyers]

well i own TXP, so i haven’t dealt with XMLs in this way!

but like i said, first put the subs in their own sequence, so you don’t get too much unneeded info in ht XML.
then, as all the info re the text generators would be identical for each one other than the actual text, i was thinking you could do a find all and delete for all the code you DONT want

nick

[Nick Meyers]

could be sequence corruption.
maybe try copy pasting your work into a new sequence.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Title Exchange Pro from Spherico Filmtools

with this, you export an XML fro FCP,
then covert it to any one of many many formats in TXP
none are specifically simple word docs,
but many can be opened into word.

a more manual way would be to edit the XML file yourself.
copy paste your subtitle track into a a new FCP sequence and export an XML

might be a good idea to also copy / paste a single subtitle, or maybe two, into another new sequence and export an XML from that.
much simpler to analyse.

open the XML into a text editor
then figure out what is redundant info , and do a find and delete, or find and replace for those terms.
whittling it down to just the text, and maybe the TC

nick

[Nick Meyers]

look into FCPX
from another list:

If you assign each clip a camera name according to which camera it was shot with and tell X to sort the angles by camera when you make the multicam clip, then it’ll use date and time stamp and/or audio to place all the clips from one camera into a single angle not separate ones. Leaving you with one angle per camera and every clip that belongs to it. If you did your homework, then they’ll even be in sync.

When in doubt: https://bit.ly/152ayOP

[Nick Meyers]

my pleasure,
glad it was that simple in the end

nick