Hello
I'm hoping this is a simple question. I have footage in 1440 x 1080 and created a project with the same dimensions.
How come then I have a wide black border around the edge of the image as if the project were actually wider and higher.
I can do a transform so that my image fills the screen but that takes a long render.
Thanks for your ideas
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Make a new project with the default settings based on first clip. Drag a clip into the project. What happens?
Post a screen shot of the movie inspector in the QT player.
Hi Tom thanks for getting back to me. Herewith the screenshot from FCP.
That's not the QuickTime player. That's FCP. Where did this video come from? The audio is compressed and the audio sample rate is incorrect as well. It wasn't imported into FCP from a camera. It's hard to tell from that image, but it looks like there's black all around it. Really need to see the QT player report. You will probably need to convert this media using Compressor or MPEG Streamclip.
Hi again Tom, herewith.
The file was converted from HDV to MP4 with Wondershare.
What is the current size param below as different from the format? Thanks
That's terrible. Wondershare should absolutely not be used for this. Convert the media using MPEG Streamclip or Compressor. Convert to QuickTime, never MPEG-4. Use a production codec. ProRes would be best. Make the audio uncompressed 48k. The size should be set to 1920x1080 if you're going through a conversion process.
I tried MPEG Streamclip at 1920 x 1080 before which created huge files. My MPEG HDV 11 Gb files become 80 Gb each. I also tried 1440 x 1080 unscaled, but the image was squashed.
I bought a 2T RAID0 disk so the size may be less of a problem now but ****, thats big.
My disk space issue was also compounded by huge render files from the crop and transform, so I was looking for smaller compact files, wary of a performance issue. I'll try again
What are the exact specifications of the original media? I still don't know that. Just the Wondershare rubbish. Please gvie complete specs of the original media and how you got it into your computer.
The original files (from previous discussion here) were captured into Adobe Première CS4 from DV tape out of three cameras a Sony Z1, A Canon XHA1 and a Sony A1 in HDV set to 1440 x 1080. I don't know the codec used.
Can you post a piece of this original media somewhere on the web, maybe using MediaFire or WeTransfer.
I put a few minutes of film here in ts format cut with mpeg streamclip (600 Mb)
Thanks. I used MPEG Streamclip to convert the media to QuickTime using these settings
Imported the file and cut it into an FCP project and it looked like this
The Streamclip converted file is 605MB.
I got the same result using 1440 x 1080 (4:3). Thanks
However, I don't understand why in Quicktime its squashed.
Thats what threw me in the first place. I assumed that if squashed in QT it would be in FCP.
I can put up a screen shot if you hadn't noticed.
In QT7 it's squashed. In QTX it's not. 7 is displaying the true size of the image. In X you get the display view. You can change the display in QT7 pro using movie properties.
QTX? I suppose you mean QT v10, which I have and it displays the image squashed from the sides. I found no display options in QT10 to enable me to display with other proportions.
As I said you can only change the display proportions in the QT7 pro player.
I have no idea why you're seeing the image squashed in the QTX player. I see this
The inspector says it's 1440x1080, but the image display is normal widescreen.
1440 x 1080 and a border
