Odd sequence settings

I have a project in 23.98. I created a final mix in Logic (48 kHz, 16 bit). When importing into finalcut, it shows a green bar and the audio is out of sync although the sample rates are matching. However, when i create an empty testsequence with 25fps or 30 fps (not 29.97) an drop the audio, there is no green bar. When i set it to 23.98 there is the green bar. Any suggestions what to do? Just want to put the final mix under the video without drifting!
Thank you all!

25fps for testing purposes is not the best test option for 23.98 footage.
If you create a new sequence and drop a video clip in does the program ask you if you want to change the sequence settings to match the clips settings? (if not you can change this in preferences)
Click yes and now your sequence will match your source clip. Add your audio.
How are you determining that video frame xxx is in sync with audio frame xxx?
What are you using to sync the clips? TC? a 2 bip?

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Sequence settings misunderstanding

Hello everybody. I have searched the forums and have went back to the manual for FCP but cant seem to find the answer to my questions. Any help would be appreciated.
I am curious about the sequence settings in FCP. I believe that a mistake was made in the very beginning and i know that the editing timebase cannot be changed once a sequence has been created and edited in. It seems that other changes can be made though.
Before I go further, here is my set up... I shot on HDV 1080 24p (1440X1080).
My sequence settings for the project seem to deviate from what I shot at. Some things are as they should be and others are not. The frame size is good, the pixel aspect ratio is good, and my audio settings seem on track too.
However, The field dominance is set to Upper(odd)....this should be set to 'none' since i shot progressive correct??? My editing timebase is 29.97, since i shot 24p and it cannot be changed... how does this effect my project/the final output to dvd ?? My quicktime video settings are set to HDV 1080i60, it seems that I can change this back to what it was shot at, but my question about this is what exactly does this effect in relation to my project and final out put of the project to DVD??
I have not had any major problems viewing or working on my project in FCP. I have done a few tests with compressor and then burning to dvd, and my quality seems to be less than what I would like. I have tried different compression settings including HD MPEG-2 @ 18Mbps.
Could the loss of quality be coming from my current settings in FCP or are they more than likely in Compressor. If my frame controls in compressor are on, what should the rate conversion be set to, and what qualities does this effect? I also am not understanding the deinterlace settings. If the output field setting is to 'same as source', why does it even give you a choice if you shot progressive?? I AM Confused about these settings as well.
I realize there are many questions bundled within this post. Please be patient with me and any info would be appreciated.
thanks
joe

To my knowledge HDV at 1080 is interlaced.
You could:
Open a new sequence and drop a HDV clip in/FC will ask if you want to conform the sequence to the clip-click yes/sequence settings will now match the clip and show you exactly what you are dealing with. This info can also be found in the columns for each clip and sequence but I find sequence view is easier to understand what you have.
Creating a Blu-Ray via Compressor is your only option for HD on a disc. DSP has no relevant HD options as HD-DVD lost the format war to BR over two years ago.

Sequence Settings for "Apple Lossless" codec !?!?

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I am editing a project and the material was delivered to me in the "Apple Lossless, stereo, 44100 khz DV, 720x480 (640x480), millions
Is there a Sequence settings I can use to edit this without having to render it in the timeline ?!?
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David Berry

o maybe FCP is only able to work in certain formats without having to compress ?o maybe FCP is only able to work in certain formats without having to compress ?
All the formats in the EASY SETUP are what it works with basically. But you can create custom setups..but they will NOT be realtime. That is what that trick is all about. If that trick doesn't work, then it is a format that FCP isn't gonna work with without recompressing. But audio still needs to be 48Khz 16-bit aiff files.
There are other NLEs out there that do this...Vegas, SpeedRazor...you can look into using them if you are constantly going to be dealing with odd codecs.
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Sequence settings FCP

What would be the best sequence settings in FCP for footage shot at 720 60fps and 1080 60fps.
I have mixed footage, shot with 2 different cameras and settings..i usually use DV NTSC but I am using a Panasonic GH2 and imported the footage using iMovis and a panasonic HVX 200. I chose Apple intermediate Codec in my settings.
I am able I belleive and on testing this seems to work, 720 and 1080 footage...also I was testing using 1080 24 fps and that also is able to run in my sequence...will I have any problems when I output to DVD.
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sAs i was testing a new camera and was not sure of my settings I have screwed it up regarding all footage matching, BUT image looks stunnng and I would like to be able to use all I shot, so any advise about seq. settings and overall info on mixing different image quality...a 24fps clip runs in a 60 fps seq, which i thought couldn't happen??
I'm just learning all this so need straitening out....on the settings for sequences mostly and the odd codec.
thanks Cath

Why did you use iMovie to import? The Panny GH2 and HVX work just fine with FCP.
What you would typically do with mixed format footage is convert everything to a common format beforehand using Compressor - i.e. convert whatever you have less of to what you have most of. Although in this case you have to consider that it's easier on the eye reducing the 1080 to 720 than blowing up the 720. And of course the delivery format has to considered too.
In any case, ProRes LT would be the ideal editing editing format. You then tell FCP to match the Sequence settings to the source footage.

My sequence settings have changed - inexplicably

I have loaded up a project i was working on yesterday and i can't understand why but my sequence settings appear to have changed from what they were initially set to.
They should be and were:
Frame size: HD 1440 x 1080 (16:9)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD (1440x1080)
Field Dominance: Upper (Odd)
Compressor: DVCPRO HD 1080i50.
Now they are:
Frame size: 720x576 CCIR 601 / DV PAL (5:4)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: PAL - CCIR 601 (720x576)
Field Dominance: Lower (Even)
Compressor: DV - PAL
So now in effect I have HD footage on an SD anamorphic timeline. When I change the settings to the correct ones, it stretches and shrinks the footage.
How do I correct this without having to recut the whole thing?
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Jeremy

Zak Ray wrote:
Reset the settings to what they should be. Then go to a single clip, and reset it's Basic Motion and Distortion in the Motion tab of the Viewer. Copy this clip, select all of your other clips, right-click, choose "Paste Attributes", and check Basic Motion and Distort.
An even faster way to do it: select all in the timeline, then command option v. Then tick the Distot and Basic Motion checkmarks and press OK.
Note that any changes you've made in Basic Motion and Distort on your clips already will be lost (i.e. a "Ken Burns" pan/zoom on a shot or image).
Correct. Also for the workflow I sugested
Not sure if there's a way to do it without losing that information, maybe someone else will pipe up.
No. that is not possible. Both methods will reset all those information and you'll need to redo them.
Rienk

Best sequence settings for editing HD video material from Nikon D3S

Hello there,
My quesstion is, what are the best settings in FCP for editing material from the Nikon D3S?
At this point I had a sequence (automatically generated from FCP) with settings
Frame Size: 1440X1080 Aspect Ratio (1440X1080) (16:9)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD 1440 X 1080
Field Dominance Upper (Odd)
Editing Timebase: 25
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Compressor: HDV 1080i50
Now, when I place a video clip form the D3S into the timeline, in the preview screen it does not fill the frame. I have to grab the corners and pull it to fill the gaps.
I opened the same video clip in QT to check on the inspector and this is what is telling me:
Apple OpenDML JPEG, 1280 X 720
FPS: 24
Normal size: 1280X 720
Current size: 1280 X 720 (Actual)
What do I need to do, so that the sequence settings are very similar to my AVI files? Or to make the same? I assume that if I pull the corners to fill the frame, I am loosing quality? Is that the case?
Since I need to deliver this today I will continue working on the sequence as with the former settings, but I am wondering that if I have to change the settings, will this affect my already edited material? Do I then need to start a new sequence from scratch?
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I have a D3s. I'm using FCP7, it's been awhile since I used version 5 so all I can do is let you know my workflow with ver.7 If you convert to ProRes 422 1080x720 24fps, it works very well, change the audio from 44 to 48kHz and set the frame rate to 24 instead of 23.98
Here's what I do.
1. Copy the CF card to the HD of the computer
2. Open Compressor, in these next steps we'll make a custom Droplet.
a. In the Settings tab, select Formats > Quick Time > Apple ProRes 422
b. Drag this to "Drag Settings & Destinations Here" and click it
c. In the Inspector, select Encoder
d. Select Video Enabled, then hit Settings. Frame rate 24 > OK
e. Select Audio Enabled, then hit Settings. Choose 48 kHz
f. Save As. Name it. It will be in > Settings tab > Custom
g. Click your new Cutom setting
h. File > Create Droplet
i. select your new custom setting
j. save it to the desktop, leave destination as source.
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4. drag all you D3s clips in, change destination to a new folder
Now you have all your original .DVI and the converted ProRes clips
5. Open FCP, select Final Cut Pro > Audio/Video Settings
6. in the Sequence Setting tab select Apple ProRes 422 1280x720 48kHz
7. Clip Duplicate and give it a new name
8. change the Editing Timebase to 24 > OK
9. select the summary tab click Create Easy Setup
10. name it, give it a description > Create
11. the next time your open FCP use this Easy Setup
12. your D3s clip should not need rendered now.
13. When your done editing use Send to Compressor
14. Vimeo will accept a wide varity of formats
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16. For Blu-ray I use Export to QT Movie and use Sony DVD Architect to author the BD at 35 mbps, but that's another story.

Downconverting HD to SD: Change Sequence Settings or. Motion Tab ???

I'm working with 1080i DVCPro HD footage, which am editing in HD. The client wants me to deliver the project file with HD and SD sequences (with identical cuts) but SD Quicktime renders.
So the HD sequences are easy ... under Sequence Settings I have these specs, which allow me to edit the footage without having to render:
Frame Size 1280x 1080, Aspect Ratio HD (1280x1080)(16x9)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD (1280x1080) - Ananmorphic NOT checked
Field Dominance: Upper (odd)
Editing Timebase: 29.97
Compressor: DVCPro HD 1080i60
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Frame Size: 720x480 NTSC DV (3:2)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC - CCIR 601 DV (720x480) - Anamorphic NOT checked
Field Dominance: Lower (even)
Editing Timebase: 29.97
Compressor: DV/DVCPro NTSC
I'm not delivering Anamorphic; the SD renders will have letterboxing. BUT unless I tweek the footage's Motion settings, it still looks distorted. The footage looks the most normal after shrinking the Scale to 60% of original, and changing the Aspect Ratio to -60.
But I'm just eye-balling things ... is there a precise rule for downconverting this HD format to standard SD ?

Umm well OK I found the Advanced Format Conversion option in Compressor, and am testing that out now.
But for academics, let's just say I want to convert the sequences also ... as in, exporting normal SD Quicktimes directly from FCP's sequence without using compressor ... which Sequence Settings and Motion Settings would I change?

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29.97
Apple ProRes 422 (LT)
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Image Sequence Settings in QT Pro - what is the Frame Rate range available?

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Frames rates are from 10 seconds per frame up to 60 frames per second.
I make many image sequence movies and just start with one frame per second.
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My 2008 Mac Pro running Lion will not play HDV1080i60 footage in FCP 7. When I open the sequence settings, all HDV codecs are hdv1, hdv2, hdv3, and so forth. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

My 2006 - 2008 Mac Pro running Lion will not play HDV 1080i60 footage in FCP 7. When I open the sequence settings, all HDV codecs are hdv1, hdv2, hdv3, and so forth. However, when I open the project on my other Mac Pro running Snow Leopard and FCP 6, the footage works fine as it does on my newer Imac running Mavericks and FCP 7. I have tried a Quicktime update on the Mac Pro that the footage doesn't work on but it says that I already have the newest version of Quicktime installed. I have also tried reinstalling the Final Cut Pro Studio twice, still no fix. I'm completely out of solutions and need to be able to edit HDV footage on this machine. Any help would be great. Thanks.

there was a recent software update that seemed to screw HDV up. Do some searching here over the last month or 2 and you'll find a bunch of posts and some possible solutions.
Worst case scenario, do as Shane suggests. But might I suggest you take a look at the user tips section of the forum. there are some great tips on how to prevent these sorts of problems by cloning your startup drive, etc.

How do I match a clip to sequence settings and sequence presets?

I'm getting the warning: Attention - This clip does not match this sequence's settings or any or our sequence presets.
I'm trying to figure out how to set things up in Compressor so that my clips do match my sequence settings and presets. The issue seems to be with the audio not matching.
Here are the sequence settings:
Audio-2 Outputs
Frame Size- 1920x1080
Vid Rate-24fps
Compressor-Apple ProRes 422 (proxy)
Aud Rate 48.0 KHz
Aud Format 32-bit floating Point
I shot all the footage with a Canon 5D Mark II. I'm using Compressor to convert all my original clips. The only thing I don't seem to be able to match is the Audio. I can't find any way in Compressor to encode clips that have "two outputs" in the Audio column.
The dialogue box for "Sound Settings" in Compressor doesn't offer any sort of options, that I can find anyway, to generate clips with "two outputs."

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Description: Apple ProRes 422 10-bit video with audio pass-through. Settings based off the source resolution and frame-rate.
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 16.36 GB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
Apple Lossless, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: (100% of source)
Height: (100% of source)
Selected: 1920 x 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Selected: 24
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy)
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Automatic gamma correction
Progressive
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 0
Temporal quality: 0
Min. temporal quality: 0
These are the sequence settings:
Frame Size: 1920 x 1080
Editing Timebase: 24fps
Field Dominance: None
Pixel Aspect Ration: Square
Anamorphic 16:9: Off
Video Processing YUV allowed (8-bit)
Compressor: Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy)
Millions of Colors (24 bit)
No Data Rate Limit
No Keyframes Set
Quality: 100
Audio Settings:
16-bit 48.000 kHz Stereo
I made screen shots, but don't see how to paste them into this post.

When creating a new project, the step "new sequence settings" doe not appear automatically, what to do?

Hi there,
I have a question I am doing product videos for a comany they would like me to do this in a format that is 16:9 and in HD. Since they don't know on which channels they want to publish it but it is certain they will publish it on youtube I wanted to do it in the settings HDV and then DVCPROHD 720p24 or even 1080p24. I have bought the license of Premiere online and for some reason I do not have the option in the beginning when I create a new project to change the sequence settings. They do not appear and afterwards I cannot change them. Do you guys have an idea what can be done in order to access this setting before the project ultimately opens?
I'd highly appreciate any kind of help on the matter!
Cheers,
Mascha

Or do this:
or this

How Do I Change My Sequence Settings to Match My Clip

Hello -
I shot some footage in SD with a frame size of 16:9. When I dragged a clip into my first sequence, FCP asked 'if I wanted the Sequence to assume the properties of the clip?' I hit 'yes' which changed the sequence to match my clip. However, when I created a new sequence(in the same project) and dragged a clip into it, FCP did not prompt me with the option to change the sequence settings. Now, I have a 4:3 sequence with a letterbox 16:9 clip. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks for your help!
Isaiah Smith

menu: Sequence Settings (or Commnd 0).
Then check (√) the Anamorphic checkbox.
OK
Then select everything in the timeline. (Command A)
Command Option V (Remove attributes). Make sure Distort is checked (√)
OK.
Done

What Should my sequence settings for H264, 1280x720/30fps be. Pro Res422?

I have a job coming up and an fully aware of the nightmare of editing H.264. The footage I've got was shot on a flip camera. H.264, 1280x720 at 30fps. The deliverable is DVD. Am I right in choosing ProRes 422 for the sequence settings? I notice when comparing the clip in the browser window to the same clip in the viewer window, the clip in the viewer window looks a tad wider. Is this a pixel aspect thing.
My sequence settings are as follows;
Under the General Tab;
Frame Size: 1280x720
Aspect ratio: HDTV 720p (16:9)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square (Anamorphic 16:9 is unchecked0
Field Dominance: Lower (even)
Editing Timebase: 29.97
QuickTime Video Settings:
Compressor: Apple ProRes 422
Quality: 100
Audio: 44.1

Shane, thank you for your reply. I want to be sure I understand you correctly. Convert the footage before bringing it in to FCP (compressor), or can I just render in the time line as I build the sequence? I plan on exporting a same as file for use in DVD studio Pro for a deliverable.

How to change sequence settings without CC 7.1 update?

Well, i was hoping that Adobe will release 7.1 update on October 15th, as promised on some websites. I don't recall, maybe it was Creative COW or any other.
That's why i have created 720p PRORES proxies for 9x multi-camera live performance shoot which lasts for 2 hours for lag free, fast editing.
I have sucessfully edited it and promised my clients that on October 16th they will get the whole show in 1080p, high quality.
So, there is no update yet, and yes, i can relink files to original 1080p, but the multicam sequence is capped to 720p and i simply can't find a way to change it's size.
The old fashion copy/paste way from one sequence to another does not work, since 720p sequence is linked to multicam edits. In CS6 i could edit ".prproj" file in text editor to change any properties (including sequence properties), but right now in CC, .prproj file contains binary data only, so i can't do it that way either.
Maybe someone knows any other way to change sequence settings right now, or what is the exact day for 7.1 release?
Thank you!

Hi Paolon!
You need to extract your .prproj using WinRAR to a text .prproj file, then use some text editor such as Notepad to search and replace sequence dimensions
For example find "1920" and replace it to "1280" if it looks like Īt belongs to a sequence definition.
I don't recall how it was called, maybe "VideoFrameRect" or something similar.
First create some very simple project to experiment with, and always make a backup copy in case something goes wrong

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