Q: HD project to SD - to regain resolution of enlarged clips and stills
I have an HD ( 1080p ) documentary project on FCPX timeline nearly completed. It was always slated to be distributed on DVD for specific reason, which in principal has been the resolution of original media we have to include in the documentary. I had done this before a few times in FCP7 ( classic !? ) through compressor and DVD Studio Pro with acceptable results for maintaining the resolution of the output in general and maintaining the resolution of the intercut original media that were not HD to begin with.
Now, to compound the hit on the resolution issue we had to crop ( enlarge ) a few of the HD and even SD media. I tried to open the the 1080p project in a new 480p project with the hope of having overhead room for all those cropped and enlarged media but " everything " is already reduced to SD automatically ! I shared a copy to DVD through FCPX and the results are comparatively unacceptable as directly sharing the original HD version to DVD.
How can I, in FCPX, bring an HD project in SD and keep the existing HD resolution at my disposal to selectively fit the footage in SD timeline ?
The final goal is regaining some lost resolution due to excessive cropping and enlarging of lower resolution media.
Posted on Oct 16, 2015 3:53 PM
YYou can also set multiple clips at the same time. So if you search in the timeline index for a name or tag you can select the clips and change the spatial conform of all of them at once.
Posted on Oct 16, 2015 5:48 PM