Robert Towne
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Wait a minute, I never provided steps, my bad, different website. In FCPX setup a 1280 x 720 project. Add your 1080 clip to the timeline and highlight it. Click the inspector and under the Video tab scroll down to Spatial Conform. By default this is set to fill, change that to none. FCPX will default to 100% scale on that clip, However, you now have between 67% and 100% to move and scale the clip.
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Simply follow the steps I’ve provided and your result will be no different than in FCP7.
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I don’t know if this will specifically answer your question, but when you add a 1080 clip to a 720 timeline, by default, the spatial conform is set to fit. You’ll need to change that setting, highlight the 1080 clip, in the Inspector under the video tab twirl down Spatial Conform and set that to none. What FCPX doesn’t do is auto scale your clip to 66.6% by default it leaves the clip set at 100%, however, you now can scale that Clip between 67% and 100%
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No, you’re not being stupid. I’ve run into the same scenario and haven’t figured it out yet. Any 1080 clip I put to a 720 timeline in FCPX is scaled at 100% which it shouldn’t be. It should be 66.6% So, with the thought that okay let’s scale to 130% did an export of that and it looked terrible. In fact, even a non-scaled 1080 clip put to a 720 timeline, exported, looked unacceptable. Anyone else have any experience with this?