Fcp studio importing different size frames

Hello All,
here is my workflow:
I imported a clips from an ipad and iphone...
i converted clips in compressor to apple prores 422 lt
I did not realize until after all was done (rookie mistake) that some clips were 24fps and some were 30fps and some were
1080x1920 and some were 720x1280 I thought they were all the same coming from ipad and iphone?
my titles i made in photoshop at 720x640
everything looked good upon export as a quicktime movie...
then i made a droplet in compressor to convert my quicktime file for youtube...
upon viewing in youtube my video was stretched out.....
anyone know if my first issued was my size of my clips imported?
do i have to do this whole thing all over again?
thanks

Hey Nick,
Thankyou sooo much for your response... this is what I have
motion files     960x720 I just went with default settings not thinking about frame size in my fcp timeline
ipad video      1080x920
iphone video   720 x1280
photoshop      720 x 640 your right.. I do not know how I came up with this..I don't know what I was thinking? This on I can fix in photoshop.
I am guessing that when I transcoded in compressor that the fps changed on me?
So I have the most of 720x1280 clips
intended delivery method... youtube (is that what you meant?)
Thank you Thank you Thank you
david

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Hi Tim,
WOW! Thanks for the super-fast reply! As soon as I posted this I realised I should have mentioned that I am importing DPX files. I do import quicktimes as well but know that the footage import does not apply to a single file, only a sequence of files. But I still wonder if I may be either doing something wrong or am just a little confused. I have been using After Effects since CS3 doing compositing for film and I always use DPX sequences. I did a bunch of comparing and back and forth with AE CS6 and AECC while trying to figure this out. I always set my preferences up when I upgrade before I start working and I always set them up the same. I have been using CS6 since last July and it still works the same. What I did is imported five or six different DPX sequences, some were rendered out as 24 fps, some at 30 and some at 23.976. Assuming AE looks at the metadata to decide how to auto interpret, AE CC opened them all at their native frame rates of the just mentioned 24, 30 and 23.976 respectively, even though I told it to import at 24fps in the preferences. I also imported the same files in AE CS6 and they all opened at 24 fps like always. I know I can change the frame rate in the "Interpret footage" option, that is what I have been doing today so that I can work with footage in 24fps but since I have it set in the preferences to import image sequences at 24fps, I am perplexed as to why it does not do so, so I do not have to interpret the footage to my preferred frame rate, as is the case in AE CS6 as well as it was in CS 5.5 and CS 3. Since I was lucky enough to have an Adobe employee chime in Tim, I would be curious to see what you may find if you recreated this scenario. Would it be possible for you or someone at Adobe to set the sequence footage import frame rate to 24 fps in the preferences then try to open a piece of footage that is natively 23.976 fps in both AE CS6 and AE CC? Like I said, I certainly beleive I may be doing something wrong but I would be very curious to see what you find on your side. I would not be suprised if it imported at 24 fps in AE CS6 and 23.976 fps in AE CC.

Multiple stages on multiple screens of different size

I'm working on a project that requires me to have two stages on two screens of different size. How do I do this in Flex, or is it even possible?
More specifically, I am building a kiosk appliction, that will have the menu on a small touch-screen that sits in front of a larger, wall-mounted screen. When the user selects content to be played (videos, web sites, whatever) from the touch-screen, then the effect of that selection needs to be sent to the other stage. I need to be able to run a screen-saver on the main screen, also. Basically, the controls are the main application, and the other screen is simply a container for viewing things.
I am currently packaging my Flex project in AIR, not through the web, so I actually have a windowed application. Basically, I just need to create a new window with a custom chrome that simply holds a movie.
Is such a thing possible in Flex? I couldn't figure out how to spawn another stage, much less one that was referencable from the first stage.

Hey all. I have reached the answer. I left everything up that I posted before, in case anybody is having similar issues. To create the custom component, click your project, create a package, and then right-click that package and create a new MXML component. Then, create the MXML just like you would before. Your root tag will be whatever you are working to modify (so, s:Window for my case, but you can do an s:Label or whatever you want). So, first, I'll give you the code for my simple Window component:
[CODE]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<s:Window xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
                    xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
                    xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
                    systemChrome="none" visible="true" transparent="true" showStatusBar="false" width="400" height="300"
    <s:layout>
        <s:BasicLayout />
    </s:layout>
    <s:Label id="controlScreenTitle" text="new Window from VideoScreen component" fontSize="72" fontWeight="normal" color="#222222">
    <s:filters>
        <s:DropShadowFilter color="#CCCCCC" />
    </s:filters>
    </s:Label>
</s:Window>
[/CODE]
All I did was a very simple white box there. You can disable the system chrome and such from the main Window tag, as I have shown. The window this creates has no [ _ ] [ [] ] [ x ] buttons, bar along the bottom, or any background. In my actual project, this component will hold a container to play my video objects.
Then, I create my main document:
[CODE]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
                        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
                        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
                        showStatusBar="false" alwaysInFront="false"
                        creationComplete="init()">
    
    <fx:Style source="KioskScreensStyles.css" />
    <fx:Script source="controlScreenMain.as" />
    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            /* Insert other ActionScript stuff here. Try to put as much of it as you can in the .AS file, though */
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
    <fx:Declarations>
        
        
        
    </fx:Declarations>
    <s:BorderContainer id="controlInterface" right="0" left="0" top="0" bottom="0" borderStyle="inset" borderColor="#CCCCCC">
        <s:layout>
            
            <s:BasicLayout />
            
            
        </s:layout>
        
        <s:Label id="controlScreenTitle" text="Error loading program..." fontSize="48" fontWeight="normal" color="#222222">
            <s:filters>
                <s:DropShadowFilter color="#CCCCCC" />
            </s:filters>
        </s:Label>
        
        <s:ToggleButton id="btn1" label="Play video 1" click="btn1_clickHandler(event)" />
        <s:ToggleButton id="btn2" label="Play video 2" click="btn2_clickHandler(event)" />
        <s:ToggleButton id="btn3" label="Play video 3" click="btn3_clickHandler(event)" />
        <s:ToggleButton id="btn4" label="Play video 4" click="btn4_clickHandler(event)" />
        <s:ToggleButton id="btn5" label="Play video 5" click="btn5_clickHandler(event)" />
        <s:ToggleButton id="btn6" label="Play video 6" click="btn6_clickHandler(event)" />
    </s:BorderContainer>
</s:WindowedApplication>
[/CODE]
Now, the important part will be the .as file. Here's parts of that:
[CODE]
/* Imports */
/* import custom components. This is what allows us to open a new window in AIR. NOTE: THIS IS HOW YOU GET THAT CUSTOM MXML FILE IN HERE TO USE */
import customComponents.VideoScreen;
// import older mx stuff only when needed. Try to avoid using these.
import mx.controls.Image;
// import the newer Spark components. Use these for everything possible.
import spark.components.VideoDisplay;
import spark.components.Window;
import spark.primitives.Rect;
// Global variable declairation
protected var screens:Array = Screen.screens;
protected var controlScreenSizes:Rectangle = screens[0].bounds;
protected var videoScreenSizes:Rectangle = screens[1].bounds;
// All variables below Defined in init(), to be sure that they have been fully loaded
// While the :Window declairation technically works for the controlScreen, Flash views this as an error, and will not process everything properly if I type it like that.
//protected var controlScreen:Window = this.Window;
protected var controlScreen;// = this;
/* NOTE: THIS IS THE USE OF MY NEW, IMPORTED CUSTOM WINDOW. This is all you need to do to make it. */
protected var videoScreen:VideoScreen = new VideoScreen();
protected var btns:Array;
/* Initialize all my variables, and call the needed functions to set everything up */
protected function init():void
    controlScreen = this;
    // This is a Window method that opens the Window. I did not have to code this.
    videoScreen.open(false);
    btns = [btn1, btn2, btn3, btn4, btn5, btn6];
    placeScreens();
    createControlScreen();
    loadScreenSaver();
/* Moves all my screens so that they sit in the top-left of each of the two screens, and then expands to be full screen on those two screens, whatever size that may be. */
private function placeScreens():void
    // We move it to -1,-1 because there is 1 px padding and dead white space that I can't figure out how to remove.
    controlScreen.move(-1,-1);
    controlScreen.width = (controlScreenSizes.width+1);
    controlScreen.height = (controlScreenSizes.height+1);
    controlInterface.width = (controlScreenSizes.width+1);
    controlInterface.height = (controlScreenSizes.height+1);
    videoScreen.systemChrome = "Standard";
    videoScreen.move(controlScreenSizes.width,0);
    videoScreen.width = (videoScreenSizes.width);
    videoScreen.height = (videoScreenSizes.height);
/* Puts all the buttons where they belong, and attached the background image that we need and so forth */
private function createControlScreen():void
   /* Most of this code is not needed for the demonstration, so I only include what I feel would be helpful, with psudocode for the rest */
    var backgroundImg:Image = new Image();
    backgroundImg.source = "assets/backgroundImg.jpg";
    var backgroundVid:VideoDisplay = new VideoDisplay();
    backgroundVid.source = "assets/backgroundVid.mp4";
    backgroundVid.width = (controlScreenSizes.width+1);
    backgroundVid.height = (controlScreenSizes.height+1);
    backgroundVid.autoPlay = true;
    backgroundVid.muted = true;
    backgroundVid.loop = true;
    /* Format the buttons. You can change height, width, x and y position on the form, label (the text on it), and some other things (including the ability to spawn video or picture or sound when clicked and such for animations. */
    /* buncha code that moved the buttons around and made them all fit in the screen dynamically based on the screen size. */
    /* Finally, play with controlScreenTitle, which is a label control that you can styple and use for text on the screen in addition to the buttons. In here is just a bunch of code to do that*/
    /* Attach the elements to the controlInterface. The first put on has the lowest z, therefore is under the rest. Stack them in the order you want then displayed. The first one should be either backgroundImg (image), or backgroundVid (video), depending on what you provided and want. Note that the video causes the buttons to lag a lot */
    controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(backgroundImg);
    //controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(backgroundVid);
    controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(controlScreenTitle);
    controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn1);
    controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn2);
    controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn3);
    controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn4);
    controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn5);
    controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn6);
    /* Buncha code for the functionality */
} // End function createControlScreen()
/* Puts the screensaver up on the video display so that we don't burn out the display */
private function loadScreenSaver():void
    //pull in screensave into that window
/* Makes sure that the user doesn't see two buttons active at the same time--that would look like two movies were playing at the same time. */
private function deselectOtherButtons(clicked:int):void
    for(var i:int=0; i<6; i++)
        if(i != (clicked-1))
            btns[i].selected = false;
/* All of the below do the same thing: unselect all the other buttons when one of the buttons is clicked. I could just create one click event handler, but I wanted to leave the possiblity of customizing the result of each button's click, so I left it this way. */
protected function btn1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
    deselectOtherButtons(1);
protected function btn2_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
    deselectOtherButtons(2);
protected function btn3_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
    deselectOtherButtons(3);
    deselectOtherButtons(4);
protected function btn5_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
    deselectOtherButtons(5);
protected function btn6_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
    deselectOtherButtons(6);
[/CODE]
If anybody looking at this has any questions about it, feel free to ask me. I am not usually able to comb the forums, so you'll have to PM me or something. I actually put this up right after I found my solution, so there is work still to be done on it (obviously). But if you ever need to do anything like this, here's some code for you.

FCP (studio): imac vs. powermac

I am purchasing a new mac. I know using a powermac will be better,but for the price will I really see that big of a difference using the iMac(2.1) vs. the dual core 2.0? and, will the standared graphics cards offered be much different? thanks for the help!!
Mac OS X (10.2.x)

FCP will run on either, but if speed has any weight in your decision making, go with the faster machine. The Power Mac has always been the multi-media design workhorse, and while the iMac may reflect a few of it's attributes, it isn't the same machine.
Having said that, I have edited on an eMac, an iBook, a Powermac G3, G4, and G5- but the faster machine always gets the job done... faster! The way I fugure it, a cheaper computer lowers my overhead, so I can charge less- but if I bill by the hour am I really saving the client any $? Also, if you are thinking of doing multiple/long projects, you will want expandability. My system software (FCP Studio, Dreamweaver, Adobe, etc.) takes up nearly half of my 150GB system drive, and my 150GB scratch drive is almost always full, and in turn overflows onto my 300GB external drive. If that isn't enough, I can easily order a few 250GB HDs and have them installed in less then five minutes due to the nature of the powermac- something I can't do with an iMac. Worth thinking about...

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