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I can change the aspect ratio in iMovie from 4:3 to 16:9 why can't i do the same in FCPX????
I orinigaly imported my project from iMovie into FCPX as standard...but now I would like to have my project in 16:9. How can I make the switch?
Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Cmd-J for project properties. Wrench button in the lower right. Set the format you want.
I tried that but I still have black bars on the sides of my image
Is your media 4:3? What you do you want to do with it? Scale it up so it fills the frame and cuts the top and bottom? Or do you want to distort it to make it 16:9? You can do that in the inspector. If the former set spatial conform to fill. If the latter use the distort function in the transform section or the distort function in the lower left of the viewer.
Media is PAL SD. I want to scale so it fills the frame. where do I set spatial conform to fill?
Click on your clip in the Event Manager and then go to the Inspector, in the Info tab. You should have a "Anamorphic Override" option. Set it to "Widescreen".
Here the bottom of the inspector.
That anamorphic override is great when it works, but I've got some .MOD files from I think a Panasonic camera and even though "Anamorphic Override" is checked in metadata views, it goes away from the inspector any time I click on one of the clips from that camera. I read somewhere that Anamorphic Override only works on SD media but these are MPEG2 files, frame size is reported as 704x480.
I guess I could fix it in MPEG Streamclip, but I'd rather not have to.
I Think you should start at the beginning. What camera is this? How did you import the media? FCP can't import MOD files. 720x480 is SD. Are you sUre it's anamorphic? Post screen shots if the clip info.
Changing Aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9
