Clip size issues

I have a sequence of all ProRes coded clips that I brought into a new sequence that has settings to be displayed onto an NTSC monitor. Everything looks how it should, except for a few random clips that are huge and wont fit on the screen. When I choose the "fit to screen" option in the canvas pull down window the picture only shrinks a small amount. Even adjusting the size with the wire frame won't get them exactly right.
What am I doing wrong here?

Load one of the weird clips into the Viewer, open the Motion tab, adjust the scale.
If your HD material is 16x9 it will never fit a 4x3 aperture.
"Fit to screen" only adjusts the sie of the playback image in the Canvas, has nothing to do with the scaling of the clip.
bogiesan

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Need some advice...as usual!
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>Re: What ams I doing wrong - size issue.
Several things...
First, your 17" monitor has noting to do with web page
layout. What
resolution is your monitor set to? it could be 800 pixels
wide or 1280
pixels... wouldn't that make a difference? That aside, screen
resolution and
size are irrelevant anyway. What counts it eh size that your
viewers have
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I have a pretty large monitor, set to a very high resolution,
so I open
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content in all.
Sometimes my browser is full screen and sometimes its shrunk
down to less
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Every web viewer
out there is different and likes the way they have their
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Next, Don't design in Fireworks and import to Dreamweaver.
Fireworks is a
superb web ready graphics and imaging processing program. The
authors
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very poorly.
Design your pages using Dreamweaver. Learn html markup and
css styling to
arrange it, then use Fireworks to create graphics to support
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Along the way, be aware of the diffferant browsers in use.
Internet
Explorer is the most popular (or at least most in use) simply
by virtue of
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complient (by virue
of the Microsoft arrogance) so some things that work there,
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good eye for
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nicely working
sites.
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message
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> Need some advice...as usual!
>
> I designed a site on my 17" monitor and set the margins
to 0 and table to
> 100%. However when I look at it on different screens it
looks
> rubbish...big
> gap at the bottom of the page with the design cramp at
the top. I wonder
> if
> someone would mind looking at my code and see what's
wrong with it. The
> site
> was designed using various techniques including css for
nav bars, tables,
> and
> fireworks elements. the site can be viewed at:
>
> www.shelleyhadler.co.uk/nerja.html
>
> thanks for your help. Shell
>

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I have loaded a 12GB file into Imovie from my DV camera.
I now want to split the file into a number of clips that will be the right size for burning to disk.
To test, I took a 3 minute clip from the original 60 minute (12GB) file but it's size remains at 12GB.
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ssavery wrote:
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But I continued to work for the last eight days, hoping that I'd be able to rectify this somehow.
I cleared the cache with no luck.
I read that I could uncheck 'Composite in Linear Color' to make it faster, but that wasn't an issue in the last build.
My playback and paused resolution is 1/4.
I read that I should update my OS to OS X Mavericks, but that keeps crashing too! Haha.
I understand that my system isn't the best, but I just want my project to perform as well as it did on Premiere CC before the update.
I just spoke to an Adobe tech who basically told me that there wasn't a solution here besides reverting back to Premiere CC from CC 2014 -- or buying a new Macbook.
But there has to be a way that I can get the same performance that I did before the upgrade, right? I have a feeling something happened to how CC 2014 is using the existing footage.
(Also, I noticed that clips where I increased the zoom, i.e. 100% to 110%, were back at their original size. And instead of saying 100%, it was now saying 300%. I'm assuming this is because of the 'Set to Frame Size' setting, but this wasn't the case on Premiere CC.)
Does anyone have any ideas what I can do here?
Here's my sequence settings on CC 2014:
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Thanks a ton in advance everyone! I really can't afford to lose 8 days worth of work, so any help would be greatly greatly appreciated!
I'll be more than happy to provide additional info.
I'm really looking to find out, definitively, if my only two options are: a) go back to Premiere CC and lose my recent work, or b) buy a new laptop, which I can't afford.
(As a side question, is there any way I can transfer my recent work from CC 2014 to CC? I understand it's not backwards-compatible, but there has to be at least a partial solution.)
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Thanks for the quick response!
So just this right (to DV):
I scrubbed through really quick, seems like it just may have worked.

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Hey all,
Been at this for quite some while now and searched the www thin for suggestion - so really hope someone can help me out here.
Objective:
- Target a folder with xxx .gif patterns (in the same size)
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So far ive only had the automate > batch process to save out one .png with the pattern correctly applied to the silhouette.
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Just to give a simple idea about my setup take a look here:
http://i.imgur.com/FE8mSEU.png
In this one below, ive closed everything and run the automate > batch process, which gives me the error you can see here:
http://i.imgur.com/7Cvj26D.png
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Hi Mack,
Thanks a lot for your throughout response - really appreciate it!
I do acknowledge that im new to batch in Photoshop and could possibly why this is not working for me - although in not quite sure why and what I would need to make as a programmed script - would you by any chance try to give me an idea on what specific step needs to be programmed?
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5. I then click over to my sleeve_layer.PSD window tab and paste (ctrl-v) my copied pattern image into a layer above my sleeve layer.
6. I then right-click with my mouse on the pattern.gif layer -> click "Create clipping mask" (the pattern is now only shown within the sleeve layer shape)
7. I save the work done in the .psd to web -> File -> Save for web -> .png
8. I then close my sleeve_layer.PSD - without saving it (since I dont want to have clipping masks for each pattern stacking up from the batch)
9. Recording ends
If I now run the batch all actions are done fine until it reaches the action with the clipping mask - where I get "The command "Create clipping mask" is not currently available" - I can see that when this error appears, im not seeing any open sleeve_layer.PSD tab - so not sure if the psd file is actually getting opened (and this might be the error for the reference error of the clipping mask to appear).
If I try to manually RUN the actions set in the actions panel, I notice though that the sleeve_layer.PSD tab is getting opened.
When running automate -> batch -> I point "source" to my folder of all patterns (only .gif files appear in this folder)
"Destination" folder is set to some other folder.

Clip size limited to 2 Gig?

I am new to this version of Imovie '08. I know with the old Imove 3, there was a limit to the size of the clips. Is there still a 2 gig limit or 9:99minutes limit on the clip lengths in Imovie '08. I was considering purchasing the elgato 250 plus and wanted to import the vhs videos into Imovie'08 to edit them. Will I be able to edit the videos (separate clips, add music and titles) easily using Imovie '08? Some clips will be an hour or 2 by themselves. Anyone have any experiences with the Elgato 250 plus? Good? Bad?

I quickly found in my Events Library a 2.98GB clip in dv format. This clip was imported through the ElGato EyeTV hybrid in MPEG2, and then converted to DV by the EyeTV software. It was part of a longer clip, and I used the EyeTV SW to edit it into logical events.
With an Aluminum iMac, you have plenty of processing power to do the VHS import with the EyeTV Hybrid rather than the 250 Plus. The 250 Plus might work great, but I have no experience with it. I think it is targeted at older, slow machines that need to move this processing outboard. You can find the ElGato stuff inexpensively at macsales.com both new and refurbished.
It is possible to split events within iMovie as well. The trick is to reject a single frame at the point you want to split, and send the rejected frame to the trash. If you can't spare a frame, you can split before import using the EyeTV software or using Quicktime Pro.
You will also find that the ElGato will import your video with a single date (the import date), not the original analog recording date. Thus your events library for 2008 may be cluttered with events from 1988, say. My favorite solution to this issue is a program called "A Better Finder Attributes" which allows you to set the metadata on your clips so that iMovie will put the event in the right year. It is best to do this before you start editing, so the pointers wont be confused.
Although, I use the ElGato EyeTV Hybrid, it strikes me that I am introducing one extra conversion into my workflow that may result in degraded quality. The Quality is pretty good, but not as good as the original analog recording viewed on a TV. If you could find a DAC which would convert directly from Analog to DV, you could cut out the imtermediate step of MPEG2 an perhaps get better quality.
I have an old DAC, and I may hook it up to test this when I have time.
Also, some miniDV camcorders have a "pass-thru" feature that will allow you to hook up analog input and convert it to firewire DV on the back end.
Good luck.
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