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Anamorphic to 4:3Posted by adelena
So, I've got an anamorphic timeline with some 4:3 footage in it. FCP automatically centers it and my Quicktime layoff file is great. Plays 16:9 anamorphic with the 4:3 footage right where it should be. My boss comes to me and says that one of our clients needs just a straight 4:3 version. I'm thinking cool, I'll create a new 4:3 timeline and just copy and paste all of my edits into it, voila! Not so fast. The new timeline squeezes everything (even the black pillars) into the new 4:3 frame so that it's all thin and tall??! I know there's got to be an easy workaround. What I did was resize one piece of the footage and paste the attributes into the others. Seems to have worked fine but what am I missing? My original footage was captured 4:3 and the anamorphic tick box was never ticked? What gives?
> I'm thinking cool, I'll create a new 4:3 timeline and just copy and paste all of my edits into it,
> voila! > My original footage was captured 4:3 and the anamorphic tick box was never ticked? You'll need to remove the Distort and possibly Motion settings that were applied to make your 4:3 footage fit into that anamorphic 16:9 sequence. Those are retained when you copy/paste clips between timelines -- which would make sense; FCP would not arbitrarily remove your Motion, Filter settings etc. on a clip because it would assume you would want to keep those as part of the paste operation. Select those clips and press OPTION-APPLE-V (Remove Attributes) and check Distort and Motion. This is contingent upon your clips not having other Motion and Distort settings that are intentional editing decisions. ![]() www.derekmok.com
Derek's suggestion was right on, thank you sensei. Removing the attributes was what I needed to do. I should've thought of that.
The footage is 4:3 SD but was first edited into a 16:9 anamorphic timeline. I was trying to avoid having to re-create the edits for another format to output. Thank you all for the teach, Andre
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