Stephen Metzger
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Great, thanks so much, Tom!
Pickup Productions.
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Yeah, I won’t need to reopen it in FCE, so that’s not a concern, but are you sure these two versions are compatible? I know that FCP 7 is the newest FCP version and FCE 4 is the newest FCE version, so I’m worried that since I have FCP 6 it won’t be new enough to read the FCE 4 file. What do you think?
Pickup Productions.
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Hmm. Anyone know any good free plugins that remove dirt/pixels?
Pickup Productions.
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Hmm, I’m looking for a way to continue using the Export Using Compressor option and have the Final Cut project not close during the export.
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Do you mean just exporting a QuickTime movie and then bringing that file into Compressor?
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Yeah, I wound up taking Rafael’s advice: I create a separate sequence once I’m done editing, and give the new sequence the aspect ratio settings I want (some 16:9 variation – usually 960×540 or 854×480), then I select a square Pixel Aspect Ratio. Then I drag the edited sequence as a whole (from the browser, not the individual pieces from the timeline) into the new sequence. This seems to work fine and exports properly. This can also be helpful for exporting HDV sequences as smaller aspect ratio files.
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I apologize, I meant 720×480 and not 720×280. I am trying to create a video with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Using the DV NTSC Anamorphic settings in Final Cut (the only way I know how to view 16:9 SD DV footage in Final Cut) gives a 720×480 frame size and pixel ratio with the box labeled “Anamorphic 16:9” checked in the sequence settings. When I export the video as an .mp4 through Compressor (100% of source frame size and 1.000 pixel ratio) and resize it to 640×360 (16:9) in QuickTime, everything looks fine. However, when I upload this resized file to YouTube, it automatically pillarboxes it (bars on left and right – I think the aspect ratio it converts it to is 720×480 or something similar, definitely not 16:9). Weirdly, if I export the video through Compressor with the frame size set to 640×360 (seemingly regardless of pixel ratio, square or 1.333), the file looks identical to the resized video from before, except for the text I made in Final Cut. The video images (people, etc.) look exactly the same, but the text is definitely taller, and I have no idea why. (Posting this version to YouTube results in the correct 16:9 aspect ratio, Youtube does not change the aspect ratio like with the video file I resized.)
Pickup Productions.
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As I mentioned above, the grayed “default for size” PAR is 1.000 (square). I have also tried selecting the square pixel aspect as you suggested, but it’s the same as default for size (1.000), so I get the same result: everything seems fine except for the text that is noticeably tall/skinny.
Pickup Productions.
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Thank you kindly, Josh. As I was typing the original post – specifically the word “mirror” – a light bulb went on over my head. I put “mirror” into the help search, and it brought up the perspectives submenu – life changing!!! (I couldn’t think of any more synonyms for reverse [for searching purposes] until “mirror” just popped into my head.) I figured out how to do what I wanted (flop works just fine), and then I spent about an hour and a half creating basic text animations with the “curl” filter instead of working on the video I was supposed to be doing for Work-work.