Changing aspect ratio in Final Cut Express 4

I am having trouble with the aspect ratio of my clips.
I imported from a camera to iMovie '08, then edited all the clips which I needed (about 10 hours of 2 minute clips). Then I bought FCE4 as I realized I wouldn't be able to do what I needed in iMovie. I imported all the video in 16:9, and have checked the project settings on all of the clips in iMovie - all are set at 16:9, then I exported them as Final Cut xml files.
I've now begun to import them into Final Cut, but they come in as 4:3. In the project properties I have them set as PAL CCIR 601, but I am not given an option to set the aspect ratio. I've tried setting it to 1.422 in the motion tab of the viewer, but it doesn't appear to do anything.
So, how can I import these files into FCE4 and preserve the 16:9 aspect ratio?

Hi
Did You try.
• After Capture
• Select a Clip in Browser
*• The Browser window can be extended to the right.*
• Now more columns will be revealed - one of them Anamorphic
• tick this for the selected clip
• NOW drop clip into TimeLine (has to be done this way)
How does it Play ?
Yours Bengt W

Similar Messages

How to change DV/DVCPRO video to 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio in Final Cut Pro X?

I shot some DV video footage on a Canon XL2 in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio mode. I captured it on a Firestore and imported it into Final Cut Pro X, and it is now being displayed in an incorrect standard 4:3 aspect ratio.
How can I change the aspect ratio of the video within FCPX once I've imported it?
I've tried playing with the Spatial Conform setting for the video file, but that keeps it in a standard aspect ratio and fits or fills the video into a different aspect ratio. So that's not the answer.
I've tried an old trick I used when working with DV widescreen video and iDVD, but this process doesn't fix the aspect ratio in FCPX. Here's the article for your reference:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179
Did Apple forget that DV/DVCPRO video--although standard def--can be displayed in 4:3 or 16:9? It seems to force it to 4:3.
Thanks.

@daguerratype
The Spatial Conform is one of the things I tried. Unfortunately none of its settings fixed the aspect ratio. When I choose "Fit", it simply shows it as 4:3 and leaves left and right black borders on a 16:9 timeline. When I choose "Fill", it zooms the 4:3 video and chops off the top and bottom parts.
@Thomas Emmerich
This is a decent workaround. Fortunately my clips are named in such a way that I can easily drop them all in the timeline and do a Command-F (Find) to search by clip name, highlight all of them in the search results, then use the Inspector to modify the properties of all the clips at once. I have to change X-scale to 133% and Spatial Conform to "Fit", and now at least it fits the 16:9 timeline properly.
Thanks to both replies. I still hope Apple adds a way to fix the clip in the Event browser so that I don't have to do this workaround.

How do I change the aspect ratio on Final Cut Pro X?

Whenever I upload new media (regardless of what ratio it was filmed in) it plays in letterbox format. I would like to change the aspect ratio to 16:9. Thanks.

Please open the clip in the QT player and post a screen shot of the movie inspector. Post a screen **** of what you're seeing in the viewer.
You keep saying upload, do you mean import?

How to change pixal ratio in final cut pro x 10.0.0

i have just been given a macbook pro 2012 13" i5 which has final cut pro x 10.0.0
i cant change pixal ratio
i have used premier pro cs6 which can easily do this by left clicking on footage then selecting interpret and changing pixal aspect ratio then select conform to anamorphic 2:1 (2.0) ...i want to do the same in final cut pro x
i want to change a 1440x1920 to anamorphic 2:1 (2.0)
how can i do this in final cut pro x with out croping or losing footage
i have used letterbox plugin (2:35) but i lose the top and bottom of the footage any way i can do this in final cut pro x of motion 5/apple comppressor?
any help would be very helpful
god bless
thx abdul

Check the Tutorial:
http://www.matthieu-jalbert.fr/capture-dimage-final-cut-pro-x-10-1/

Aspect Ratio From Final Cut

I shot some footage and improted it to Final Cut, it looks fine, but when I export to compressor, it does not preserve the aspect ratio. I tried the geomotry settings, no dice. What am I doing wrong?

SSGT. BARNES wrote:
Here are the details. I am exporting from Final Cut in Final Cut Studio 2. I then hit export/Using Compressor. When it is in Compressor, the aspect ratio is tall and thin. What do you think I am doing wrong?
Nothing, actually.
If, as I suspect, you're working with anamorphic material (either 16:9 SD/DV, or an outright anamorphic codec, like HDV or DVCProHD), using the Export Using Compressor function will not correct for geometry in Compressor's Preview window. But it is a display issue, not a functional error (the information passed from FCP to Compressor is always correct, in my experience).
But what are you outputting to? And I mean what codec (DV?) or encoding type (MPEG-2 for DVD?).

Best way to get film aspect ratio in final cut

i have edited all my footage and want for the best way to export in film aspect ratio. im not what that is but i think around 2.2.
can someone help me in the best way to do this
how do professionals do it for movie trailers which areuploaded online
thanks

Actually, it was 2.66:1 when it first came about, but when an optical soundtrack was added to the format the AR was reduced to 2.35:1. This was altered later to 2.39:1, which is the current standard. People often use the ratios 2.35:1, 2.39:1, and 2.40:1 interchangeably. Unless talking about a movie made between 1958 and 1970, Cinemascope means 2.39:1.

Change canvas size in Final Cut Express?

I completed an animation in FCE before I realized that I did something foolish: My animation frames are shot in HD (1920x1080), but I failed to set my canvas size, which is NTSC. Now, when I export my animation, the video size is distorted.
Is there a way to change the canvas size of a movie so that it applies to existing sequences? Or, can a sequence's dimensions be changed? And, if not, can anyone recommend a workaround? I'm dealing with several thousand individual animation frames, so starting from scratch isn't an option for me.

You can't. FCE is a fixed resolution editing application, either DV or HD at 1080 or 720.

Final Cut Express - Aspect Ratio

Where do I set the aspect ratio in Final Cut Express? I find that often I import 4:3 clips, and FCE wants me to work with them in a 16:9 Sequence, so I get letter boxing. Sometimes, FCE seems smart enough and says "hey should I fix this", but sometimes it doesn't, and I can't figure out how to tell it what aspect ratio my project is in.

Yeah, it took me a while to realize what to do about this. If you have your bowser window in column view, you scroll it to the right and find the check box column for anamorphic.

Final Cut Express changes the video aspect

Hello.
I imported some videoes from m Sony-sr32 HandyCam with iMovie 08. The videos were captured in a wide screen format, and iMovie shows them in wide screen.
However, when I import the movie files to Final Cut Express it plays them in a normal 4:3 aspect. The video seems o be distorted (narrowed).
Why is that, and how can i Change that?
Thanks!

You have to check the anamorphic column in the Browser or in item properties to tell FCE the material is anamorphic.

Changing an SD sequence in Final Cut Express to an HD Sequence?

I have a job done for a client that was done shot in SD and edited in SD on Final Cut Express. I would like to "trick" the software by putting the SD footage in an HD sequence and stretching it manually to keep from having that squashed video effect.
1) Is this possible?
2) Can I change a sequence from SD to HD without redoing the entire sequence manually?
If you need this info, I brought the footage into the computer by firewire NTSC
Thank you.

Thank you for the info. I went to the Boris website and downloaded Boris Uprez. I am new to this. How do I get this plugin to work in Final cut express. Will I see this in the program automatically or do I have to install it and if so, how?
thanks again for your help

How to change framerate in Final Cut Express

Hello everybody - Just a simple question. How can I change the framerate to 24 fps of a sequence within Final Cut Express? Or to any other framerate? Thanks

OK, at least it's clear for me now, thank you very much

Speed changes cause Final Cut Express 2 to quit

I have a video that runs about a minute over two hours. I wanted to change the speed by adjusting the speed change feature to 102% so as to be able to fit it on a 2-hour dvd.
However, even with my dual G5 (4GB RAM) the app unexpectedly quits before it's even halfway completed rendering.
I'm on version 2.0.3. (Seems like this version of Final Cut Express has more of a problem with Tiger than it did with 10.3.9, BTW)
Any suggestions would be welcome!
Dave
iBook G4, G5 Dual 2.0, 'Pods galore Mac OS X (10.4.8)

A 2% speed reduction is not going to look good. There's no way you can reduce 29.97fps by 2% and produce a frame rate that's compressible with anything like correct frame interpolation. Not without serious expenditure of time, money, and learning, After Effects and ReTimer. You'd be much better off actually cutting five minutes out of your movie. I guarantee if you look hard enough at it you can do it. There's no 2:01:00:00 story that can't be told in 1:58:00:00.

I'm running Final Cut Express 2. How can I move entire project and application from one internal hard drive to another? Ran out of space on one drive. Thanks.

I'm running Final Cut Express 2. My video project is 95% done and I've run out of space on my 500g internal hard drive. How can I (1) move the complete FCE program and video to my unused 250g internal hard drive and operate it from there and (2) how do I then purge all the FCE info from the 500g drive without losing anything from the 250 drive?
Also, is it possible to change the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 when the project is finished? If so, how? I now know this all should have been done before I started. Thanks for the help.

1. You can't move the application. It must remain on the system drive. Move your capture scratch folder to the external FireWire drive and use the reconnect function in the project.
2. What's the media 16:9 or 4:3?

Anamorphic Footage on DVD...Final Cut Express 2.0.3 & iDVD 4.0.1

Hello again everyone,
My latest project involves 5 short QuickTime Movies edited together in one sequence in Final Cut Express 2.0.3. I am trying to now burn that sequence to DVD but I am having some "issues"...
Three of these QuickTIme Movies are DV PAL Anamorphic and the other two are DV PAL (not anamorphic) and all five have been edited into a DV PAL Anamorphic Sequence in Final Cut Express 2.0.3. This works great when viewed in the canvas.
What I have been trying to do next is export the whole sequence using File/Export/QuickTime Movie so I end up with one whole exported QuickTime Movie, containing the five other QuickTime Movies, that I can then import into iDVD 4.0.1.
The export works fine and I can import the new QuickTime Movie into a PAL iDVD 4.0.1 project but the footage looks 4:3 and not anamorphic.
When exported the QuickTime Movie does not seem to have preserved the pixel aspect ratio of my sequence (anamorphic)...
Can anyone please offer some advice here? What is the best way to export Anamorphic PAL sequences out of Final Cut Express 2.0.3 as QuickTime Movies that can then be imported into iDVD 4.0.1 (or DVD Studio Pro and other apps) with the correct pixel aspect ratio (Anamorphic PAL)?
Is this something that iDVD can't handle and needs to be done in DVD Studio Pro or do I need to change my export settings in Final Cut Express 2.0.3......or do I need to export it from Final Cut Pro instead?
Regards,
Justin Pamenter

I think iDVD 5 is the first version of iDVD to support anamophic. Sounds like you did the right stuff in FCE. You had the Easy Setup on anamorphic when you captured and when you created the anamorphic sequence.
Take a look at the iDVD forum or Google "iDVD Anamorphic".

What are the best data and bit rate setting for uploading from final cut express to Youtube?

Can anyone suggest the best data rate and bit rate presets for uploading footage from final cut express 4 to Youtube? What settings will provide the best resolution, quality, and match the current youtube requirements?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Susan Kayne

It depends on whether you are using aspect ratios of 4:3 or 16:9.
Below is some simple guidance that will provide good quality with reasonably small file sizes.
The first part is for 4:3 video:-
1. File>Export Using QT Conversion.
2. The "Format" window should say, "QT Movie".
3. In "Use" select "LAN/Intranet" from the dropdown menu.
4. Click "Save" and when it has finished encoding, upload it to YouTube.
If you are making 16:9 video (Standard or High Definition) do steps 1 to 3 above.
Then when you have selected "LAN/Intranet" press the "Options" button and in the new
window that opens press the "Size" button and change the "640x480" to "853x480"
To do this you will have to click on the 640x480 and a dropdown menu appears.
Select "Custom" from the bottom of the menu and in the window that opens
you will see 2 boxes.
Put 853 in the first box and 480 in the second.
Click OK.
Then Save it.

Changing aspect ratio in Final Cut Express 4

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for