Imported Final Cut Video Dimension Problem

I have 3 sequences from Final Cut that I am exporting for to be burned onto DVD. However, only one sequence shows up as wide screen and the other two show up as 4:3. I am positive that the sequences have the same settings for export but iDVD makes only one widescreen and I want all three to be widescreen.

I suggest you use Anamorphicizer from http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html to properly set the flag to widescreen. It's the very first download on this page. Do not use the second one.
Note that the second download (Inverse-Anamorphicizer) is for the exact opposite problem where 4:3 content is treated as widescreen in iDVD which forces the content to be recognized as 4:3.
Hope this heps but if not just come on back. Good luck.

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How do you import final cut pro projects into imovie?
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Hi -
Mr. Ross is right, there is no direct way to export your project with all it's elements into iMovie.
If, on the other hand, you have a completed sequence in FCP that you want to export as a finished element, then import into iMovie for you to re-edit or apply titles, music, etc. you would:
In FCP:
Click on the Sequence Icon you want to export in your browser.
Go to the menu File > Export > Quicktime Movie. Give your movie a name a navigate to where you want it stored. Make sure you choose Settings: Current Settings and have the Make Movie Self Contained checked. Click Save.
Close FCP and open iMovie.
In iMovie:
Go to the menu File > Import > Movies and navigate to the movie you just exported from FCP. Choose if you want your movie imported in it's original size, etc.
Click Import. Your movie will be imported into iMovie.
Note that using this method only gives you only the elements that made up your FCP sequence, so this may not give you the flexibility you need.
Hope this helps.
MtD

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i made a video in final cut pro x. The entire thing isn't that long, however when it comes to sharing it only the very first few seconds are playe.
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I installed all the software updates.
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Exporting final cut video into DVD.

Hi I'm exporting video from final cut into IDVD but having problems as every video is pixelated, i need help in telling me which is are the best formats and settings to set it to, we are mostly doing wedding videos, and we want the quality of the dvd to be good in a tv and on my 30'' apple screen, any help is much appreciated, this forum is great...thank you all...
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Use *Export/Quicktime Movie* (not Export/Using Quicktime Conversion): then you can select whether to Make Movie Self-Contained or not. Quality is the same, but if movie is self-contained you can move it to another Mac for burning; on the other hand it takes more time and disk space.
The resulting .mov file may be imported into iDVD, which will take care to compress it to MPEG2 before burning.
Note that this workflow is good for creating DVDs with iDVD. But the resulting DVD is best watched on a real (interlaced) TV, not on a (progressive) Mac/PC monitor.
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I recorded a movie in HDV 1080i50 and captured it into Final Cut Pro 5. I think the capture was done correctly (but the video was captured by another person), with Easy Setup on HDV 1080i50 and the camera set on HDV 1080i.
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There I encountered a problem. The frame became very small while the aspect ratio was huge (1920x1080) and it didn´t matter though I copied the clips to a new sequence (with its settings on HDV).
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Best regards - Einar Hjartarson
www.gagnvirkni.is

I think your workflow is completely wrong.
Edit in whatever codec the footage is, then export via
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Welcome to the discussions from a fellow resident in the People's Republic of Yorkshire...
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Converting Editing and Exporting Final Cut Videos

I've recently begun making videos with Final Cut but because they are in a format not used by Final Cut I use MPEG StreamClip to Convert them. For Some reason, the videos I make when I export the Final Products always leave "room around the borders" (alot of room around the borders) I would like to export films that "fill" the screen. What am I doing wrong? What should I convert the sizes of the video files too and when importing to Final Cut is there something special I should follow as well?

The Original Video was an .MOD video file I use MPEG StreamClip to convert it to a video that is of Dimensions 854 x 480 DV / DVCPRO - NTSC LINEAR PCM.
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Thank you in advance for any help you can send my way. Any will be greatly appreciated.
I have a PowerMac G4 (gray) tower. Recently, under the advice of a Mac tech, I installed a 200GB harddrive and a Sonnet's Tempo ATA133 PCI card so that I could successfully install and run FinalCut Express. Now not only do I have the previous installed but I also have 1GHz CPU Speed, 1GB of RAM, DVD/Superdrive, Mac OS 10.4.3 and more than enough memory for the installation.
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Minimum Hardware Requirements
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• 384 MB of RAM (512 MB required for RT Extreme and Soundtrack)
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HI Coyote,
This could prove to be a problem. You definitely need 65MB of VRAM to run FCP. And FCP is a fairly sophisticated video editing program and takes time to learn. Unless the iBook has DVD burn capability, which I doubt, even with an older version of iLife, you wouldn't be able to burn to DVD's. But you could use iMovie, which is part of iLife to view video that's been uploaded to the iBook. Another potential problem is, I think this particular iBookG4's factory drive is 60GB. Video editing requires huge amounts of drive space to run without crashing. iLife 05 requires 4.3GB of drive space. iLife 05 requires 256MB of RAM, but runs much more efficiently with 512MB.
So, you have several glitches. Limited drive space, limited memory, insufficient VRAM, and no DVD burn capability. You wouy also need a camcorder that is compatible with the iBookG4.
I wish I had better news... here is a link to Apple's information for minimum requirements for iLife 05: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306338
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What is the minimum used MAC to run 2009 Final Cut Video Editing S/W which requires 128 mb VRAM and OSX 10.5?

I'm looking for a used MAC, probably a tower, that has at least OSX 10.5 running on an Intel processor, with at least 128 mg VRAM, so I can stream VCR content to it via a USB A/D converter, and run my 2009 version of Final Cut to edit the content, then write it onto a dual-sided DVD writer. This process is all this machine would do.
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"Work" is a relative term... please understand I'm not an engineer but I've been playing with this stuff since before floppy drives and I can't see a "USB-to-Firewire converter" doing anything to the bus protocol. I'm guessing it adapts one physical plug to the other and allows data to pass.
In most cases, the weakest link (you or least desirable feature) prevails and that would mean you could plug a FW drive into a USB socket. But I could be wrong...
An ideal solution would USB 3.0 that is offered on the latest Minis but then we're driving price again.
I understand that since this is a "purpose built" system you want to save money, I certainly would. But in this case there are some pretty strict rules if you want good results. One of those rules is that since you won't have much control of the VHS you need to be able to stream the data through non-stop to get all of it. A FW drive can do that or a plain old SATA II drive in a Mac Pro internal bay will do it no sweat for standard def video. Historically, USB 2.0 drives worked on occasion and created problem the rest of the time.
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Importing Final Cut XML Hangs Premiere Pro CC 2014

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Sort of a work around I am testing:
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Open in PPCC2014
That may work, it may also work just to remove all effects and then save the XML and open in PP CC 2014. Again sometimes it does work. The simpler the FCPro project the better.
Another option
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Hello all,
I haven't worked much with DPX since the Final Cut Studio 2 update and have now come upon an urgent problem.
I need to import 16bit DPX files into Final Cut, cut them on the timeline, then send to Color and back to FCP after correction.
I've tried this in serveral ways which lead to different problems.
First approach:
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So I opened one of the dpx files with QT7 and exported into an uncompressed mov file and already have the first problem.
it looks even more flat than the dpx files and seems to has lost all shadow detail.
It "looks" even more flat and seems to have lost shadow detail?
You are not measuring values with a scope? In other words you're "flying blind.''
Sounds like an RGB/Y'CbCr scaling problem -- Probably the dpx files are full range and the QT is being rendered Linear so the black "0" is actually being mapped to about minus 10 IRE and your white vales won't be able to make it much above 85-90 units. There will also be a gamma difference. If you were scoping these values, they'd be instantly obvious.
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the black sun wrote:
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Factually incorrect. Sad but true.
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