Problems when import aaf from Avid (again)!!

select a clip in the browser and hit command-9. Tell us what the pixel dimensions and pixel aspect ratio are.

Make the timeline active and hit conmmand-zero and tell us the same info.

More than likely, once we figure out how to adjust one shot, you'll be able to copy all the attributes to the rest of the clips in the sequence.

OK. Try this. First, duplicate your sequence in case things go south. Find a representative clip in the browser. Create a new sequence and edit it into that sequence. FCP will ask if you want to match the sequence settings to the clip. Say yes. Does the clip look ok in the canvas? If so, do the new sequence settings match the original sequence settings? If they do, select the clip in the new sequence and copy (command-c). Go to the original sequence and select all (command-a) and then hit option-v (copy attributes) and choose basic motion and distort. Does that fix things?

If you want to send me one short shot, I'll see if I can figure out what's going on. My email is in my profile.

I suspect that there's something going on in the distort settings. FCP tries to take care of this stuff automatically and every once in a while things do get screwed up.

True weirdness. The frame rate of the clip that Christian sent me says it's 15 fps. If I drop it into a new sequence, fcp doesn't ask if it should match the sequence settings to those of the clip. If I use cinematools to conform the clip to a standard fcp frame rate, it does and everything seems hunkydory. Wonder if there's a problem with the frame rate of the AAF export?

glad you figured it out (or at least a workaround) and thanks for closing the thread. Not enuf people do this.