Sequence settings problem

Hi,
I'm just about done with a project that has 22 sequences...all shot on a sony HDV camera. Everything looks great except the first sequence...it has different sequence settings then the rest. When I go to change that sequence to match the others (HD 1440x1080) it letterboxes it and puts the clips in a tiny rectangle in the middle of the window. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance!
Molly

You cannot change the settings when video is in the sequence.
Try copying all the video/audio on your sequence. Delete it. Then make your sequence changes. Then paste the video/audio back to the sequence.
If that doesn't work try fixing your first clip. copy it. Select the remaining video. Hit Option V. Select Basic Motion. You may have to adjust some clips depending on your edits.
Good luck.

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FCP sequence settings problem.. plz help?

Hi i'm trying to set up my sequence so i can submit a tv show pilot..
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Banky007 wrote:
how come there are bars on both sides?
Because you have anamorphic checked on your sequence settings. If you have described you source material correctly, you need to un-check anamorphic in your sequence settings. Once you do that, then contol-click on any clips you have on the timeline, and from the drop down menu choose Revmove Attributes. When the Remove Attributes pane opens, check Basic Motion and Distort ( if they are not grayed out) and click OK.
And as Mr. Ross has said, you do not want to be working in H,264 in FCP7. If you need to deliver in H,264, then edit In ProRes and when done, export a Quicktime and convert it in Compressor to H.264.
MtD

Annoying Sequence Settings Problem!

Hi,
I have a short film I'm working on and each scene is a different sequence. I would like to include them all in one sequence so I can see how it all plays together but whenever I copy and paste the entirety of one sequence's clips into another, the pasted clips become distorted and cropped. All the scenes were shot with the same exact camera on the same settings and in their respective sequences, they look the same.
User Preferences > Editing > Auto Conform Sequence does nothing no matter what I switch it to!I would really appreciate some help with this! This short's been delayed for months and months and it just won't end!
Please help me figure out how to include all the scenes in one sequence!

I'm well aware of how it should be. Working with two editors, I assume mistakes were made and settings were mixed with. Thanks for the help anyway but I just manually resized all the clips myself with no pixelation issues so I solved my problem.
Message was edited by: Aeonstars

Anamorphic sequence settings problems w/ a little XML thrown in

After searching long and hard and finding similar problems, yet without seeming to find a solution to mine, I humbly post this.
I have been using FCP since version 1.0 and usually been able to solve all problems, but this one has me vexed.
I am in a major bind. I have a project which needs to be delivered today and I can't figure this out.
I am working on a film shot 16:9. My loading and sequences have all been tagged approriately as DV NTSC 48K Anamorphic. I finished editing the film with no problems until it came time to get notes from the (admittedly) computer-phobe director.
Instead of notes, the director asked if she could take a crack at doing revisions. I never see my family, so I said "have at it!" I backed up my sessions to my internal drive and gave her the firewire drive containing session copies and all loaded footage.
She played around for a week and then told me she could not see the forest for the trees, so could I (quickly) please smooth out the new version and do a compromise between it and the original.
At that point we discovered that she was using FCP 5.0. I am still happily using version 4.5. I got her to export the new version of the sequence as an XML file, which I imported into FCP 4.5 on my system, reconnecting to the media on the drive.
Sorry for that long set up. Here's where the problems start.
The director didn't simply duplicate my sequence and make changes. She created a new sequence and cut and paste portions of mine into it, then added her own parts.
Only she had no idea how to set up FCP properly.
Her new sequence was created as a 4:3. When she pasted footage from mine into hers, it became letterboxed.
I changed the sequence setting to anamorphic, but it just squishes the footage, leaving the matte at the top and bottom.
Upon further inspection, it seems that none of the clips (reconnected from the footage which I originally loaded) is tagged as anamorhic either. (!?) If I retag it, it makes no difference. BUT IT'S THE SAME FOOTAGE I LOADED, WHICH STILL LOOKS FINE IN MY ORIGINAL SEQUENCE!!
She's made too many changes, and her sequence is way too much of a mess with footage everywhere and audio and video disconnected everywhere to reconstruct it easily.
I have to have locked picture by tomorrow!
Why is this happening? Do I have to go back into her FCP 5.0 session to fix this? I'm still running 4.5 (and in the middle of several projects -- I don't want to upgrade now).
Someone please help.
G4 733 Mhz 1GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Final Cut Pro HD 4.5

Well I discovered the solution finally.
Besides the fact that the seq was 4:3 and not one clip was tagged as anamorphic, I discovered that every single individual clip now had an aspect ratio setting of -33.33 in each clip's respective motion tab. Setting that back at zero for each clip, resetting each clip to anamorphic and changing the seq setting to anamorphic and -- voila! Everything is back to normal.
It seems that when you drop anamorphic footage into a 4:3 timeline, it unchecks the anamorphic tag for that footage and changes the clip's aspect ratio setting to create the letterbox effect. Unfortunately this will have to be reset on each clip to get it back to normal.
I'm glad this is just a short and not a feature. What a pain.

Sequence Settings, HD Export problems.

1. I'm importing a perfectly good quality Quicktime Movie segment of about
150 MB
1344x840
H.264 codec
Duration 00'55
...in which it's perfectly easy to read small print in the movie. The source audio/video comes from the game World of Warcraft, and has to be processed in Quicktime Player Pro first in order for FCE to recognize and be able to import the file.
2. I'm being forced to render a lot to see the effect of any of my editing, this may be due to the input does not match anything in the Sequence Settings - which I have mostly only tried
HDV Apple Intermediate Codec 720p30
HDV Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i50
HDV Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60
...I have no idea which ones I should be using, or if I should be using one of the confusing numbers of DV-PAL or DV-NTSC sequence settings. Since the video is closest to the 1280x720 of the 720p30 I've been using that.
3. End problem is that no matter what I do to the export settings, - I've spent about ten hours now trying different export formats - I always seem to lose a lot of quality in the process. The small text is not readable. The quality loss is simply too much for me to want to present the final product to anyone.
I'm currently trying to fiddle with export settings in QTP in order to hopefully evade having to do so much rendering in FCE, but so far no success. Any help would be much appreciated, as this has bothered me for a long time now, and may be enough cause for me to give up on FCE altogether.

Try this free third party app:
http://www.squared5.com/
You have to decide which format you want to work with in FCE and use that Easy Setup. Read the details when you are at the Easy Setup window, each are different to suit incoming audio and video.
Then use Streamclip to convert your original footage to conform to your chosen Easy Setup, audio rate and video size.
Al

This is a tough one! Problem with sequence settings....

OK...where to begin!
Here is some background (I have posted many questions about these issues and have resolved most of them, except this project)
1.Recently upgraded to 6.0.1
2. 'lost' my scratch disc (ok, I accidently deleted it)
3. All projects are OK to do without, except this one!
4. The footage for this project was from 2 cameras: one is DV and one is HD. The HD footage was downgraded to DV during capture from camera for the original project. Now, with 6.0.1, I bring it in HD and mix the footage on the same timeline with the DV (which is so cool and so much easier for me!) But I wanted to make sure and do the same thing I did for the original clips on this project, so when I just batch captured all the clips, I brought the HD in as DV. Both were shot wide screen.
This one sequence is 6 minutes long and I COULD recreate it, but it is very detailed and has a lot of filters, edits, etc. Here is the problem:
I did a batch capture on all the clips and successfully got all the clips back and the timeline plays, but the two different "cameras" footage looks different in the canvas: (the sequence settings are frame size: ntsc dv 3:2, pixel aspect ratio ntsc-ccir601/dv and anormorphic is checked)
The HD footage, downgraded to DV, looks fine
The DV footage is stretched, and has a bar on the top and bottom.
I have played around with the sequence settings and these are the best results i can get.
Now I made a new sequence with same settings as above and i dragged a couple different clips from the browser into the timeline and they are fine... (these clips are the same ones in the problem sequence that look stretched)
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance!!

I understood that the sequence looked at the first stuff dropped into it for behavior. If you dropped the problem material from the first sequence into the second sequence you created prior to dropping any thing else in then it will behave as you would expect. if you dropped footage that wasn't formatted the same as your sequence settings you get the "...would you like to ..." and the sequence settings get changed. I avoid this because some of the changes applied don't allow my Kona to playout.

FCP 6 Sequence Settings and RT playback problem

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Have recently bought a copy of Final Cut Pro Studio for my macbook pro
I know to play video in FCP in real time all the sequence settings need to match the captured video/file settings of the clip.
All my settings are matching, Ive tripple checked them but they are STILL saying I need to render the clip before playback in SafeRT.
Have tried deleating files and re-importing them ect still no go.
The file ive imported is a DVCPRO HD codec.
I cant render everytime I want to play a video - thats not an option. It should be okay if all the settings match (Which I belive they do) but still not working.... is there a vital setting I may have missed?
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cheers
h

Yeah tried doing that, plays okay but really want to get the safeRT working properly
wow - i didnt realize that the 5400rpm drive in the macbook pro would preform so poorley with compressed codecs such as DVCPRO which is a pretyt standard codec yes?
I guess the 7200rpm drive now is def the way to go - i was getting one anyway
so does it matter that the computer drive speed is 5400rpm when working of a 7200 rpm firewire 800port drive? I assume that if all the media is on the 7200rpm the computer internal drive would only be running the program, which would be more then enough do you agree?
Its looks as if FCP 6 has some way of recognising the computer drive speed for accessing the media and determining whether it is fast enough or not, if not, wont even try to attempt to play in RT resulting in the red render line, no matter if I have my sequences settings all set up correctly and matching. This is something that I am unclear about in the software.

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.

Using Animation in your Sequence Settings ... Amazing!

Well here's the thing ....
And I'll start off by saying I have so much to learn about FCP but this has made a big difference to how my images look, especially graphics and titles.
So I'm working away at my project and the graphic images that I import into the timeline from the viewer are just ok and I'm a bit disillusioned like so many people seem to be on these forums about how the image degrades from the viewer to the canvas. And of course it is apparent later on the QT file and then the DVD that's produced at the end.
So one day, and I can't remember how it came about, I open the sequence settings and change the Compressor in QT Video Settings to Animation! Well what can I say, the image in the canvas was absolutely perfect and in some cases, it's actually a little better than how it looked in the viewer before I brought it across.
I have to produce a DVD where each week, some of the moving footage and graphic images have to be changed over. A total of about 15 minutes and all of it of course is in this Animation sequence. The downside of using Animation is
(1) the rendering time is horrendous, (or is that horrenderous?)
(2) as I'm editing, the playhead disobeys what you ask of it and you get the spinning beach ball quite often (can take 1-4 minutes before you can continue again)
(3) sometimes when you're playing through the timeline the image on the canvas and the sound quality are poor (processor running out of puff I guess)
It's a bit of a nightmare but I have no choice but to use Animation now the Marketing Department have seen the difference and expect the higher quality on the images. Cannot get this quality with any other setting I've tried in the Compressor setting. HDV1080 for instance means the rendering problem goes away but the difference in quality is obvious. The project has many different files and formats from HDV to H264s to Pro Res 422s and lots of various jpegs in various forms. But regardless of the project, I have experimented with unrelated sequences in different projects with the same result.
My questions are..... has anyone else experienced this, is there another setting that would bring about the same results and lastly, would the rendering and the other problems significantly be reduced with say the top-end iMac?
I have to tell you I almost didn't post this coz I have so little experience with FCP but it would be great to get your feedback. The weekly project I produce may take more time than it should but I have to say I'm happy with the results.
Thanks for reading.
Peter L

Well... the animation codec is primarily used for sneakernetting files from one platform to another, mac to pc for example. It's a bear for a lot of computers to even play out a file without choking. The concept is make animation file, put on disk or drive, carry across the hall to the pc station, convert to something the pc station can use without choking.
I would suggest you try a little experiment: take your input material and convert it to prores (NOT HQ) before import or WHEN you import (log and transfer) and work with that natively. HDV as HDV is really a cruddy medium. Prores will give you a much better color space and have actual frames all the way through, which hdv does not. Take a one minute section of material, load on some graphics and filters etc, render it out, do your whole production process and see what it looks like. Once you move beyond the artifacts inherent in hdv and h.264 encoding you might be surprised.
Bad mistake to point out to marketing folks how cool it looks. You must be young!

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.

FCP 7 crashes when choosing "yes" to changing of sequence settings for Flip

I've been doing quite a bit of work with the Flip HD video camera recently. I grew tired of rendering everything, so decided it was time to finally upgrade from FCP 5 to FCP 7.
However, FCP 7 crashes every time I try to lay down video files from the Flip camera onto a timeline.
Upon laying the files down onto the timeline, I am prompted with the message asking if I want to change the sequence settings to match the video. I click yes and immediately get "General Error" and FCP crashes.
I tried trashing the preferences. same result.
I tried updating FCP 7 to FCP 7.0.1. same result.
I even tried updating fixes for iMovie as if that would have anything to do with it. same result.
I'm currently rendering it out the same way I had been in FCP 5.
Any advice or ideas?

AVC is h.264, which is not a work-able editing format, it's a delivery format (and a consumer video camera acquisition format suitable for holiday videos going straight to YouTube), that's why you've been having to render all the time in FCP 5.
Now you're in FCP 7 and it's asking if you want to change the sequence settings to match the video, but there is no sequence setting to match AVC/h.264 so it's freaking your computer out. Still, it shouldn't crash, but that's the problem i believe.
You need to correct your work-flow by transcoding your media into something usable like ProRes, or you can choose not to change your sequence settings, and render the timeline as you have been doing in the past.

FCP sequence settings when shooting 24p, 2:3:3:2 at 16x9?

I'm attempting to edit my first feature project on FCP after having shot footage on a canon xl2 at 24p, 2:3:3:2 and using the 16:9 frame size.
Can't find specifics about the proper FCP settings anywhere in the manual for editing footage shot this way. So I'm wondering-- since the captured footage shows up in the browser as 720x480, should the sequence setting be dialed in the same? Also should I be editing in the timeline with sequence settings at NTSC DV (3:2)and the anamorphic 16:9 box checked?
Oh... and one more thing-- how much memory would you guys recommend be allocated to the fcp application (i'm guessing less than 100%)and how much to the thumbnails?
I've got my notions on all this but am a little nervous about going forward without some reassurance. Appreciate any help you can offer on these questions.
mac g5 Mac OS X (10.3.5) 3.5 gig ram

I'm attempting to edit my first feature project on FCP after having shot footage on a canon xl2 at 24p, 2:3:3:2 and using the 16:9 frame size.
Can't find specifics about the proper FCP settings anywhere in the manual for editing footage shot this way.
You're best off creating a new, custom Easy Setup to meet your needs...
Press Option-Command-Q to launch the Audio/Video Settings dialog
Select the Sequence Presets tab, then...
Click DV-NTSC 48 kHz - 23.98 and press Duplicate
In the Sequence Preset Editor, check the Anamorphic 16:9 box
Rename this Sequence Preset to DV-NTSC 48 kHz - 23.98 Anamorphic and click OK
Back in the Sequence Settings tab, place a checkmark next to your newly created sequence preset to select it as your current preset
Select the Capture Presets tab, and repeat the previous sub-steps for DV-NTSC 48 kHz Advanced Pulldown Removal
(that is, duplicate, adjust for Anamorphic, rename, then select as your preset)
Select the Summary tab and confirm that you've got the correct presets for all selections - outside of what you've adjusted already, Device Control as well as Video Playback should be set to FireWire NTSC - then click the Create Easy Setup button
Enter a name and description, then click OK
After you've saved your preset, click OK to exit Audio/Video Settings
You've now got your system up and running correctly so that you can digitize and edit.
If, for any reason, you screw up your settings, you've now got an Easy Setup that you can simply access at anytime, simple press Control-Q and select it from the options. Or if you're a menubar person, that's Final Cut Pro > Easy Setup.
Oh... and one more thing-- how much memory would you guys recommend be allocated to the fcp application (i'm guessing less than 100%)and how much to the thumbnails?
Personally, I leave mine at 100% - never had a problem with it. However, many here advise dialing it down to 70% or so (if I can remember correctly - hopefully someone else will chime in if I'm wrong).
The default thumbnail value is fine as well, in my experience.

Sequence settings for HDV 720p 24 fps

Okay, now that the French is gone I'm back on track, but still confused. I've captured my HDV 720p @ 24FPS footage using LumiereHD & it's separated & ready to go. What sequence settings/editing timebase should I use? I've noted people here saying DVCPro, but others said DVCPro is just problemic/not correct for HDV . . . and the Lumiere forum reccomends using the Apple Intermediate Codec, which I think people here said NOT to do . . . and there's a 720p24 option in Lumiere, but not in FCP . . . is it just like using 24p DV where you edit at regular 29.97? My head is turing into goo. Any sage advice, O sage ones? And I'm finishing on DVD, if that's usefull. Thank you!!!

Don't stay nervous for ever, you're missing out on a lot of good stuff.
1. Repair Permissions.
2. update to OS X 10.4.8
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
3. update QuickTime to 7.1.3
4. make sure you have Motion 2.1 already installed
5. update all your pro apps with Software Update
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/whats_new_5.1.2balis.html
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3213777
Still nervous?
I can't tell you what setting in FCP 5.1 to use, because I no longer have 5.1.
I would convert the HDV to DVC PRO HD 720p.
Editing in native HDV is a pain because of the frame structure.
You will end up with larger files with DVC PRO HD, but since it's all "I-frames" editing and compositing will be much, much faster.

Sequence Settings for Computer-targeted Projects

Hello,
It seems to me -based on a scan of the forum's topics- that there are many people who would like to use FCP for creating computer-targeted output, that use still images as the source material. That is, projects not destined for tape or broadcast, that were not shot on video. I realize there are 3rd party apps that do this sort of thing, but the reality is there's no need to spend more money. Creating Ken Burns type effects for example, is very easy to do in the Motion Tab. It's the related sequence settings and render settings that cause the real problems IMO.
For those who do this kind of work successfully on a regular basis, it would be good to create a list of settings that work well, so others can avoid the painful process of trial and error. Sadly the manual (great as it is) isn't much help on topics relating to still image projects. They mention things like square pixels or image size in passing, but they do not give examples of how to start this type of project from scratch.
So post away; let others know what settings work for you. If you can post the project type, source type, and then the settings, so much the better. Something like:
Type: Web Slideshow
Source: TIF, PSD
Frame Size:
Field Dominance:
Timebase:
Video settings:
etc

Bogie: if some of the sequence settings listed are dependant on the imported material (think that's what you're saying), why are we even able to change them? I guess this is an Apple design issue but seems strange if they "are not part of the creation process", that they should be in the same panel as the other items that are, etc.< </div>
Umm, no.
The question here asked about export settings, they did not ask about project or sequence settings. If you meant to ask about sequence settings, that's an entirely different thread and, frankly, it's all covered in the manuals.
To repeat what Zeb has said, because we can't quite seem to get us all speaking the same language here, use conventional, known formats for your production and creation of effects; DV is a great place to star because it's flexible and it's built into FCP (h264 is not a production format, Animation isn't either, nor is MPEG2).
Render your sequences and export them as self-contained movies. Bring them into Compressor and (doh!) open that manual for a few hours of casual and frustrating reading. Compressor is where you will create your transcoded, encoded and compressed movie for delivery to the Web.
What settings will you use in Compressor? Those are determined by your Web host's demands. The smoothest path to Web delivery is to give your Webhead a DV file and tell them to use their favorite compression and encoding tools to create their own favorite formats and bitrate settings.
bogiesan

Sequence settings for Sony HandyCam video

I'm working with video shot on a Sony Handycam HDR-CX550. I had no problem importing it into iMovie and then to FCP, however I can't figure out what sequence settings I should use. It appears to be 16x9, but shows up as 4x3 in my FCP bin. Also, the sequence settings I've tried all require rendering every time I make an edit, which obviously becomes a huge pain.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

My understanding is that IMovie works with DV streams (files with a .dv extension). You need to convert these to DV quicktimes (with a .mov extensions). Use Compressor (which comes with fcp) to do this. There is an apple preset for this format.

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