[Tom Wolsky]

Change it to ProRes in HD format. Do screen captures in resolutions that match your video frame resolution.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Short answer, no. 720×480 is DV. That’s a heavily compressed format. You’re taking your large image and squeezing it down into a poor quality format not designed for graphics (which your screen capture is basically).

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Must be coming from someplace else. It’s not in the standard QT package. This is what I have. In Streamclip I have an Apple Motion JPEG codec, but it doesn’t appear in the QT7 player.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

It’s not in QT export, but I have Motion PEG in MPEG Streamclip.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Asked and answered on the basics forum.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

The media needs to be converted to a format that is supported by FCP. You can use Compressor or MPEG Streamclip to do this, depending on the specs of the original media.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Find your thumbnail cache files and delete them. FCP will rebuild new ones.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Please give exact item properties of your sequence. If you mix to formats with different aspect ratios they can’t fit into the same frame.

If your sequence is in the correct format there is mo reason there should be black all the way around the images.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

One set of media is widescreen anamorphic in 16:9 format and the other set of media is in 4:3. The 19:9 media should have the anamorphic flag checked on in the browser columns or in item properties. If you want to edit widescreen you make a DV anamorphic sequence. Edit your 16:9 media into it. If you edit the 4:3 media into it, these clips will appear pillarboxed.

All the best,

Tom

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Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Do you have two types of media? Anamorphic and not anamorphic? Is it supposed to be anamorphic? You edit in whatever format the media actually is. Open it in the QT player and see what it says in movie inspector.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”