Nick Price
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Hi Harvey,
Not sure why FCP woudl change the aspect ratio of a project, but hey, its a computer. You ahve to expect wierd things to happen. What you also need to do is read the manual and you will see that aspect ratio in FCP is a wonderful thing, and very easy to play around with in useful ways….just for you info, read a post from just thig week. Hoep it helps
nickPosted on Sept 11th:
Bones,
just so you know FCP doesnt alter aspect ratio when importing. You can tell it how you want to view each bit of footage after (or before) you capture. You can do this either in the browser by ticking ‘anamorphic’. Or if you have already put clips in a sequence, you double click and in the motion tab, change the distort/aspect ratio to one of 0, 33.33, -33.33, depending on what ‘shape’ you want you image. Play around with the setting…..By ‘removing attributes’, you were removing the aspect ratio that FCP had automatically put on the clip by you trying to put an ‘anamorphic clip into a 4:3 (non-anamorphic) sequence. You can also ‘paste attributes’, i.e change the aspect ration for one clip, copy clip(apple-c), select your clips, then paste attributes (alt-v), and that will copy various settings to you new clips.
cheers
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Bones,
just so you know FCP doesnt alter aspect ratio when importing. You can tell it how you want to view each bit of footage after (or before) you capture. You can do this either in the browser by ticking ‘anamorphic’. Or if you have already put clips in a sequence, you double click and in the motion tab, change the distort/aspect ratio to one of 0, 33.33, -33.33, depending on what ‘shape’ you want you image. Play around with the setting…..By ‘removing attributes’, you were removing the aspect ratio that FCP had automatically put on the clip by you trying to put an ‘anamorphic clip into a 4:3 (non-anamorphic) sequence. You can also ‘paste attribures’, i.e change the aspect ration for one clip, copy clip(apple-c), select your clips, then paste attributes (alt-v), and that will copy various settings to you new clips.
cheers
nick -
Just changing the distort settings wont accomplish this…it will just squeeze the picture so it looks wrong, everyone will be thin and tall! Unfortunately you will have to double click the 16:9 clip once it is in the 4:3 timeline and resize to 133. You can then move up and down with the posisiton control to select the bit of the frame you want to see. You will lose a little resolution, if you have the money to do a hardware conversion it will look better.
cheers
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wow, i go away for a long weekend and you are all here helping when i get back! Good cow.
unfortunately you guys kind of reinforced that there isnt anything along the lines of what i am looking for. I use big time and its great, but it doesnt show source timecode. So if i have a selection of clips in the timeline, i have to pause to find out the source/tape timecode for the director. guess i will just have to get some big glasses and start actually communicating with the director. damn.
thanks guys
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16:9 isnt a setting thats connected to the project, its connected to the actual clip or sequence. So when you import a clip into the browser, look along the headings and see if anamorphic (16:9) is ticked. If it is when you open it up it will be 16:9. if it isnt then it will open up 4:3. Tick the box to change.
Same with sequence settings. If you’re default sequence setting is 4:3 then all of your sequences will be 4:3, you can change them after, or set your default to be 16:9 if you work more in that aspect.
Once a clip is in a timeline, and looks wrong, then double click to open it up, and go to ‘Apect’ in ‘Motion’ tab, and change between’0′ and ‘33.33’ depending on if it is streched or squeezed.
nick
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Hi there,
The viewer window will resize automatically depending if you open a 4;5 or 16:9 clip, so,You need to change you capture setting. Go to Audio/video settings in the FCP menu. Under capture settings, duplicate the one you have been using, with the right input codec etc. Click on ‘edit’ and in that window you should see an anamorphic tick box. Tick it. Then rename and save that setting as Blackmagic…Digibeta… etc ‘Anamorphic’. You will now have this extra setting anytime you want to use 16:9 capture from digi. By the way you can change clips from 4:3 to anamorphic in the browser window by highlighting them all and click on the anamorphic column. Change them al at once.
FCP handles Aspect Ratio a lot smarter than Avid.
cheers
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Hi Guys,
about to start a similar style project, filming an artist in the Antarctic. Am hoping to use a Z1 if possible. The final output will be SD. Is it worth filming in HDV mode, should i just use DV all the way? have been using Z1 in dv mode for 18months now, footage looks good. I know this is the wrong forum, gut everyone here know everything!!chers
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We do this all the time, with documnetary edits. Never had a problem as long as the tapes are labelled right!
nick
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you wont need to redigitize or import anything. Whether it was brought in 4:3 or 16:9, you can change it afterwards, either change clip by clip as suggested above, or select the clips you want to change in the browser, scroll along to the anamorphic heading and you can change them all at once. If they dont change in the timline, then, in the timeline, double click a clip that is wrong, go to ‘Distort’ part of the motion menu, and change the aspect setting there, it should be ‘0’, or ‘33.33’ depending which way the image is stretched. You can then paste attribures to all the other clips in the timline that are wrong.
nick
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oh and as for the ford and the chevvy…..
its more like being able to drive a chevvy in america, then having to go to New Zealand to drive a right hand drive 20 tonne truck.
The scenery is much better, you’ve got loads more space to organise yourself, and a much bigger tool kit in the back, but every time you try and change gear you bang your left hand into the door.
nick