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Rebecca Gordon
May 22, 2008 at 8:31 pm in reply to: Help! Letterbox footage looks wrong in FCP!

Thank you John! I really appreciate it. I’ll try that and hopefully it will work ; )
Rebecca Gordon
May 22, 2008 at 7:26 pm in reply to: Help! Letterbox footage looks wrong in FCP!

Thanks for your suggestion. I actually got the footage to look correct by changing the aspect ratio in the files in the capture folder, but now I need to know how to have the clips in the timeline reference the corrected media. Any guesses on that one? Thanks again for your reply!

RG
Rebecca Gordon
May 22, 2008 at 12:52 am in reply to: Help! Letterbox footage looks wrong in FCP!

Hello David,

So I tried your suggestion of putting the footage in a regular timeline and its a little better but the footage is still floating in black. When I output a QT movie as a test the footage looks a bit squished and there is a black frame all the way around the clip instead of the black letterbox that should be there. Here are my sequence settings:
Frame Size: 640 X 480 NTSC 4:3
pixel aspect ratio square
timebase 24
compressor DV/DVCPRO NTSC
anamorphic is not checked and I’m using FCP5
I’ve tinkered with every setting and I can’t figure this out! Is it the way I imported the footage? I shot with a DVX100A letterbox – would this happen if I shot squeeze instead of letterbox? I’m almost positive I shot letterbox though. Thanks!

RG
Rebecca Gordon
May 21, 2008 at 9:14 pm in reply to: Help! Letterbox footage looks wrong in FCP!

I think I might have tried it and it looked squashed. Is that ok? Thanks! I will try it. I appreciate your suggestion!

Sincerely,
RG
Rebecca Gordon
June 15, 2005 at 2:26 pm in reply to: HELP! Problems assigning scratch disc to lacie external drive

Hello Shane,

It completely worked! Thanks again so much!!

Sincerely,
Rebecca
Rebecca Gordon
June 13, 2005 at 10:24 pm in reply to: HELP! Problems assigning scratch disc to lacie external drive

Hi Shane,

Thank you so much – I really appreciate it and I’ll let you know how it turns out. Thanks so much again!

Sincerely,
Rebecca
Rebecca Gordon
June 13, 2005 at 10:07 pm in reply to: HELP! Problems assigning scratch disc to lacie external drive

Hey Shane,

I checked about the Lacie and it is formatted for Macintosh PC exchange (MS-DOS) – I can’t format it differently without loosing all the files on it right? Thanks!!

Rebecca
Rebecca Gordon
June 13, 2005 at 10:07 pm in reply to: HELP! Problems assigning scratch disc to lacie external drive

Hey Shane,

I checked about the Lacie and it is formatted for Macintosh PC exchange (MS-DOS) – I can’t format it differently without loosing all the files on it right? Thanks!!

Rebecca
Rebecca Gordon
June 13, 2005 at 10:04 pm in reply to: HELP! Problems assigning scratch disc to lacie external drive

Hello Shane,

It is a firewire drive. How do I find out if it is formatted mac os extended. I use it all the time and save FCP files on there. Thanks!!!

Rebecca
Rebecca Gordon
April 7, 2005 at 2:16 pm in reply to: Pixelated Logos in FCP Help!!!

Thanks for your reply!! I found a solution. In FCP I resampled to 72 dpi from 300, then made them approximately the size I need in FCP. Seems to work. Thanks!