Weird Final cut pro x cropping???

Hello Everyone. I need help. I was editing my video with final cut pro x and all of a sudden, ALL of my video clips were clipped off on each end. When played back at full screen it looks like a video from 2007 (it looks like theres a 2 inch black border around the video). How do I fix that? It's not a simple crop issue because i feel like my view finder for final cut changed from the classic display viewing to a tall rectangle instead of wide rectangle.

Sounds like the Browser window was enlarged, which might cause the Viewer to be both reduced in size and have its aspect ratio changed. And/or your project settings don't match your clip properties; and/or Fill or None is selected for Spatial Conform.
It would help if you posted a screen shot.
Russ

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Yes it let me do that. Sometimes it would show the transform adjustment sliders in the inspector when I altered the media, sometimes not. If it did appear, if you hit hide, it was gone...no "show" to open it back up. I couldn't toggle on/off the skim tool for video or audio or snapping. Not even in the top menu or by hot keys.
Anyway someone advised me on another forum to create a new user with admintrative privileges on my machine, and then try to use FCP X. It worked. Now I guess I just have to give the new user read/ write privileges to the location where all of my previous user materal is. Unless there's some other better work around. I usually edit to external media, but all of my blue chip materials (music, stock footage, logo stuff) is in the movies folder on the old user profile.
I'm guessing that FCP is hiding some sort of preferencence file somewhere that I don't know about, or maybe not many people know about. I used pref manager, house cleaner, and even uninstalled/ reinstalled the app using digial rebellions FCS remover and also using the method provided by apple. Nothing.
Weird. Thanks for trying to help though.
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Final Cut Pro 5 on Snow Leopard

Hello,
I'm really not sure if this has been answered by others, but so far, everywhere I look I'm either not seeing the answer I want, or it's a different platform. I have a MacBook (Aluminum, Late 2008) Model. It originally came with 10.5 (Leopard). However, recently, I'm not too sure how long ago, I upgraded my Leopard to a Snow Leopard because there were some things that weren't working on 10.5.8 anymore. But now, my old faithful, my Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 (Academic Ver.) no longer works right =( I can still open the application and I can also play my rendered files. However, when I want to edit my clips in the slug, the audio plays, but the video doesn't. I've tried many things already, and I already have all the codecs that I need for the application to work. Unless, having 10.6.8, screws things up? Is it really true that I can't use my Final Cut on Snow Leopard now? (From all the posts that I have seen.). I really do not want to part with this program, also mainly due to the fact I have no money, and I am comfortable with the program.
But the thing that is really weird is that my sister had a MacBook Pro that came with Snow Leopard already, she installed FCP 5 on her computer and it works fine. So how come it won't work on my computer? Is it because I only have a MacBook and not a Pro?
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How did you install it? Perhaps a required QuickTime or Pro update is missing. Ideally, one installs from the installation disk and then run Software Update until there are no longer any available, repair permissions and start editing. I assume that you can get what you need from Software Updates, but have no way of verifying.
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Good luck.
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How to import MXF files to Final Cut Pro with smooth editing

Summary: Follow this tutorial to learn how to import and edit MXF files in Final Cut Pro by converting MTS to FCP native format.
If you have a Panasonic P2, Canon XF or Sony XDCAM series camcorder,
you may be familiar with Material eXchange Format (MXF). Though MXF is a
great video format to record high-definition videos, it is not easy to
use in that they are not natively supported by most NLE systems like
Final Cut Pro. In order to import MXF to FCP for editing, the easy workaround is to transcode MXF files to FCP compatible video formats.
Along with some help from a top MXF Converter, it can be done. To
help those who wanna edit MXF files in FCP without problems, here I
share with you a simple guide on how to convert MXF files to edit in
Final Cut Pro 6/7 or FCP X.
First of all, downloading the App- Brorsoft MXF Converter for Mac
Overall, the program is a professional yet easy-to-use MXF Converter
on Mac (Mavericks included) which can not only convert XF100, Canon
C300, XF105 and XF305, Panasonic P2 recorded MXF files, but also provide
simple video editing functions for you. The MXF to FCP Converter not
only can convert MXF to ProRes for FCP, but also can transcode MXF
videos for editing in Avid MC, Adobe Premiere Pro, iMovie, FCE, etc.
Just download it and follow the tutorial below to get the work done.
Transcoding (P2) MXF files to ProRes for Final Cut Pro 6/7/X
1. Import MXF files to the converter
Launch the best MXF to FCP Converter, and then click the “add files” button to browse and import MXF videos from your camcorder or hard drive.
2. Select FCP editable format
Click the Format bar, and move mouse cursor to choose “Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” as output format.
Tips:
a. Settings- click to set video
resolution(1920×1080/1440×1080/1280×720/720×480), bitrate (from 1Mbps to
20Mbps), frame rate (24p/30p)
b. Editor (next to “Add” icon)- click to set deinterlace, trim, crop, add effect, attach subtitles, etc
3. Start transcoding MXF video to FCP
Click “Convert” button to start converting MXF files to Apple ProRes
MOV for FCP 6/7/X under Mac OS. Once the MXF to ProRes 422 conversion
is done, you can transfer MXF footage into Final Cut Pro (X) for editing
smoothly on Mac with ease.
Source:How to import MXF files to Final Cut Pro with smooth editing
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You may refer to this step by step guide on how to convert MXF to Final Cut Pro more supported Apple ProRes or DV at http://www.idealshare.net/imovie-fcp/mxf-final-cut-pro.html
It also applies to convert MXF to other video or audio format. It even applies to convert other videos like AVCHD, MOD, TOD, AVI, and MPEG etc to FCP format.

A Case Study Question in the Use of Stills with Final Cut Pro

Believe it or not, for the last week I have been reading endlessly about pixels, resolution, aspect ratio, Photoshop resizing, the bloody battle over the usefulness of the term "dpi" in video discussions, and generally about what one should do in order to use still images in a film edited in Final Cut Pro. And yet, though I have a PhD from an Ivy League university, and can understand a lot of things, I am sorry to say I am still at a loss.
Much of the discussions of photos on forums like this one are either quite technical or broadly philosophical. But my questions are completely practical and specific. I am not a photographer or a printer, nor am I an experienced editor. I am just a fairly smart person trying to use photos in his film. So I am going to ask some specific questions and hope for specific answers, without any philosophical waffling or technical mumbo jumbo.
I have one of those HP all in one printer/fax/scanner machines. I am told this device, while not fancy, is perfectly adequate to the task. Some of my photos I scan with this device from prints. Some of them I get from other people. (I have stopped downloading photos from the web, as the quality is nearly always poor.) I have Photoshop Essentials (not Photoshop). I am making a 90-minute HDV documentary, 16x9. The doc is mostly HDV footage with a still here and there. I want to be able to move on the photos (zoom, pan, etc.). I want, obviously, for them to look good. My sense is that the work flow is: (a) scan the photo (or obtain from some source as a digital file); alter the photo in some way in Photoshop; and (b) import the photo into your FCP project.
Question #1: If I have a 6x8 print, what settings should I scan it in with -- is it possible there really is no difference between scanning in it at 72dpi and 300dpi? Is it really all about the dimensions of the image? Isn't a photo whose dimensions are enlarged in Photoshop to make it available for panning and zooming in my sequence going to look fuzzier and more pixelated if it was originally scanned at 72dpi than at 300dpi? Also: Does it matter if I save it as a jpeg or tiff? Bottom line: What settings do I use in my scanning software when I scan a photo for this purpose?
Question #2: Once I have the image file on my hard drive, I suppose I now have to load it into Photoshop Elements and do something to it. What is it exactly I am using this program for? I'm going to take a wild guess. I use PS Elements to (1) crop the photo so that it has a 16x9 aspect ratio, and (2) resize it so that I can do pans and other Ken Burnsy moves on it in FCP. Bottom line: What exactly do I do in PSE to the photo and what settings do I use to both (a) make it available for moves and (b) not injure the quality of the photo by increasing its dimensions?
(In passing, I will say that I have done experiments that show that if I increase a photo's dimensions to, say, 4000 pixels by 2000 pixels, the photo's quality definitely and obviously suffers. I don't understand how a picture can be increased in size without losing sharpness. So, what am I doing wrong? Is this a function of it having been scanned in improperly to begin with?)
Question #3: If I am obtaining a photo from an outside source -- say, a professional photographer -- what are the specifications I ask for in both a hard print and a photo file? If the former, what dimensions do I ask for? If the latter, do I specify resolution and dimensions and file type?
These are my questions. At this point, I really don't want to know WHY any of this is the way it is. I just want someone to say: "Do this; do this; and then do this."
Thank you very much.

Studio X is absolutely correct; while DPI has no meaning in the video world, it often has significant meaning in scanning (and, of course, printing). If your scanning program only allows image size adjustments in DPI, then you'll have to adapt to that ... keeping in mind that the scanner's DPI setting directly relates to pixel resolution. And it is pixel resolution (not DPI) that will make all the difference in the world for images used in video. You can test this yourself by scanning an image at 1000 x 1200 @ 72 DPI and again at 1000 x 1200 at 300 DPI. They will look identical on TV or projection as long as the pixel resolution remains the same.
As an example, my Epson scanning software allows me to adjust image size by DPI or pixel resolution. Wanting to maintain the correct aspect ratio for the image area that I'm scanning, I adjust the DPI setting which in turn adjusts the pixel resolution automatically. But it doesn't work the other way around; if I adjust the pixel resolution settings manually, the DPI setting does not change. Your software may vary.
As Jim Cookman suggested, a scan setting of 300 DPI works well for most images ranging from 3 x 5 to 4 x 6 (typical snapshot size) in a DV Sequence. I may scan smaller images at 400 or 600 DPI and larger images (8 x 10 and up) at 150 DPI. Other size images fall in between those numbers. But I'm constantly watching the pixel resolution numbers to make sure I'm getting what I'll need to support the animation I intend to apply to the images once in FCP. Also bear in mind that I don't always scan the entire image. I only scan the area of an image that I intend to use in my program.
So the answer is that it all depends on your scanner's software and how far you plan to push into an image once in FCP. Do a few experiments ... you're a bright fellow so it shouldn't take long for you to find the formula that suits your purposes.
I haven't edited an HD Sequence using images yet, so I cannot offer definitive pixel resolutions for you there.
On to your specific questions:
1. See above. There is no one correct answer It all depends on what you intend to do with the image once it's in FCP. If you only plan to push in about 10%, you won't need much higher resolution than the equivalent of your FCP Sequence resolution. If you plan to push in further, you'll need a higher resolution to support that move.
2. I've been doing these for many years (SD Sequences only) and I've never loaded them into Photoshop first. I import the entire folder into FCP and drop it on the Timeline so I can see what the images look like on TV; unless your program is for CD-ROM or web delivery, that's where it counts. When you place them on the Timeline, FCP will automatically scale to your Sequence settings and pixel aspect ratio. If I see that some of them need adjustment using an external editor such as Photoshop, then and only then do I use that program. And by the way, if you have a vertical image and a 16 x 9 aspect ratio in FCP, how do you propose to crop it to fit? Perhaps you meant another term instead of "crop."
3. If it's a print, it won't matter what size they supply because you'll control the image size when scanning. If it's a file ... once again, the size (pixel resolution) depends on what you intend to do with the image once in FCP.
I really don't want to know WHY any of this is the way it is. I just want someone to say: "Do this; do this; and then do this."<<</div>
With that attitude, how did you ever earn a PhD from an Ivy League university? But if that is truly all you want, you might consider hiring an experienced editor to do it for you.
-DH

16:9 Export trick from Final Cut Pro to iDVD

If this is posted, I have not seen it. I have spent years trying to get a decent photo quality video on my widescreen tv without peoples faces looking like 4 pixel blocks. I think I have found a pretty decent result.
This is for Photo Slide shows only. (If you are going to mix widescreen video with photos, you must have the video in the timeline before you change the sequence to Anamorphic.)
Create my widescreen project in Final Cut Pro
(Photos have already been custom cropped (16x9) and reduced to 960 px in height before importing. iPhoto does this easily)
Sequence settings in FCP: Use the default settings just check anamorphic. Also, best compressor for photos seems to be DVCPRO.
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Export
Open the movie in QT Pro. Select the Video Track in the Movie Properties
Check Preserve Aspect Ratio
Change the Height to 480 (the width should automatically change to 853)
Close the movie and save changes.
(This step really does make photos clearer)
iDVD will read this as widescreen and create descent non pixelated SD quality on your Widescreen TV.
If you have a better way to do this, or can get better quality than this achieves, I would be interested to know.
Profe

Hey Mish.
I use 960 px because it is double the minimum 480. That allows me to use zoom animation or crop further without losing quality. I guess I would not have to go as high as 960 but its a number easy to remember.
As for your questions about my methods. I am one of those Final Cut Users that really does not understand how things work. I am just good at using it to create my movies. So what you say is Greek to me. Also, for some reason, I do not have Compressor application that so many people talk about in the forums. I just got so fed up with the crappy result I got with just exporting with the same settings as the sequence. The result was pitiful. If you think of a better result using different sequence or export settings, I'll try it.
I do a Highlights DVD project once a year. It's about 2 hours long (photos and video) and this method has given me the best ever result. It's my last year doing it so I don't want to invest in any software. My buddy would also tell me to use DVDSP and I've used it a couple of times but there is so much to it that I always forget what to do. So I have to "play nice" with iDVD
Profe

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I downloaded a ton of photos to use for promotional videos and now Final Cut Pro X will start to open, then close. I put all the photos in the trash and emptied the trash but it still won't open. Can you help me please? Thank you.

First thing to try is trashing the preferences using this free app which will only take seconds.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Shut down FCP X, open PreferenceManager and in the window that appears:-
1. Ensure that only FCP X is selected.
2. Click Trash
The job is done instantly and you can re-open FCP X.
There is absolutely no danger in trashing preferences and you can do it as often as you like.
The preferences are kept separately from FCP X and if there aren't any when FCP X opens it automatically creates new ones . . . instantly.
Many weird things happen as a result of corrupt preferences which can create a vast range of different symptoms, so whenever FCP X stops working properly in any way, trashing the preferences should be the first thing you do.

I Just bought Final Cut Pro X and now I find out

I just bought Final Cut Pro X, I have used Final cut Express 4 with no problem using a firewire supported camera, Now I find out there is no video camers I can buy for Final cut Pro X for under $500, all the video cameras are now USB and for PC Microsoft based computers, What the He..? Does anybody know of a video camera (AVCHD) HD for around $300 to $400 I can buy, I really do not want to buy off ebay ...I'm not sure what Apple's policy is on returning software That has been downloaded but If I can't find a video camera for this software...I want my mony back. Help??
Oh buy the way I'm just doing short 3 min SHORT clips for web etc, I have a Mac Mini Ver. OS 10 10.7.3, CS5.5
merlote12

I don't understand what you are saying. It doesn't make sense and is not true.
Cameras using FireWire are now a thing of the past. These were the traditional Mini-DV tape types that we have known for the last 15 years.
Almost every camera made nowadays is AVCHD which is ideal for FCP X and their prices start at about £180.
They use USB instead of FireWire but that is no problem whatsoever.
They work perfectly and are much better in many ways than the old mini-DV tape cameras.
I am a complete dinosaur, always harking to the past, but even I have embraced them as a fantastic step forward.
And they are very cheap!
I could go on and on.
So what is the problem?
You can buy a brand new AVCHD camera for £180 which will work perfectly with FCP X or you can use your old mini-DV tape camera.
It's a win-win situation however you look at it.
P.S. You can ignore the list of recommended cameras. It is completely meaningless as new cameras are being produced all the time and there is no way Apple could get hold of them and test them even if it wanted.
Take my word, almost every camera made will work perfectly with FCP X.
I would say that every camera will work but there may be some weird type to prove me wrong.
Message was edited by: Ian R. Brown

OMF won't export out of final cut pro.

Exporting a 93min 1920x1080 HD timeline to OMF
5 second handles tried 2 second handles as well.
OMF won't export out of final cut pro. Get error message there is a 2 gb limit.
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Have deadline. Didn't see it on any forum. Help!! Thanks!!

Seems like a weird thing to not be able to do since it's called final cut PRO...
Bagging on Final Cut Pro for OMF? HA! OMF has been around LONG BEFORE FCP was introduced. It isn't an FCP issue...OMF technology is VERY old. Over 20 years I believe. I used it on Avid...and it always had a 20GB limit.
You cannot deliver 1 track via OMF. You can ask the audio person. I know that Avid now allows you to export an AAF...but FCP doesn't do AAF. For embedded audio I think that OMF is the only way. SO you have to work within the limitations of that format.
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I have an iMac 24" 2.8ghz with 4gb of ram and 30/500GB available.
I have yet to re-install final cut studio but it may come to that.
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That sounds really weird.
The only time I've seen my system do anything near as crazy was due to a keyboard language change. For some reason my iMac, every so often, decides to slip into my secondary French Cdn layout. When it does, many of the key functions change, so when I think I'm doing one thing, I'm actually doing something completely different.
Any chance that something similar is happening to you and you are unknowingly toggling audio tracks on and off etc.?
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A lot of the time when I export .dv video into a lower quality video (.mov, .mp4) there are weird lines that appear in the motion. It's hard to explain, so I will post an image of it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/KhyronJinn/Screens%20with%20a%20purpose/Q uickTimePlayerScreenSnapz001.jpg
*Just tried again*
This happens with ANY export to any settings, even at the highest quality and almost identical hard drive space. I've also observed this problem when using still frames in Final Cut Pro, these lines of motion (I guess you could call them?) from one frame to another when extracted from a still. I'm at a complete loss here.

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Hi Eddie...
This depends on what kind of source footage you are editing....
For compressed Video, Audio and Uncompressed audio 128k
I have only had BAD results with 256k. 64 is also weird. Whereas 32 is fine.
All my RAIDs have 128k for audio/video editing
you can go further if you editing Image Sequences.. but according to my own findings and I have been dealing with raid since years.... 128k does the job the best.
Rule of thumb.... The smaller the file sizes you are putting the RAID the smaller the block size. And vice versa.
I.e. You would cripple the raid performance if storing a database on it, having a block size of 256. In case of servers and OS 32k would be a good choice, perhaps even 16k if supported.

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I am seeking to move into Final Cut Pro to develop these types of videos that I have previously been creating in Linux.
How can Final Cut Pro make these videos in the format specified below (OR VERY CLOSE TO IT)?
Please let me know what settings with screenshots, etc. will make final cut pro output in this way.
MINIMUM output requirements Video codec: Mpeg-4 (divx) with 2400 vbitrate, Audio Codec: MP3 and File container .avi
I look forward to your help, below are the details I've used in Linux, so please help me create these videos using Final Cut Pro.
I need this information by the end of the week.
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To Convert from a captured uncompressed video to MPEG-4 (Divx) with MP3
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http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html
mencoder -ffourcc divx capture002.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vp ass=1
-vf harddup -noskip -mc 0 -o test.avi
-------------VIDEO ------------
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Video Bitrate = 2400 (vbitrate=2400),
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Motion estimation=2 (mbd=2)
Trellis searched quantization. This will find the optimal encoding for
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quantization in the PSNR versus bitrate sense (Assuming that there would
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case.). It simply finds a block for the minimum of error and lambda*bits.
(trell)
Sets the comparison function for full pel motion estimation (cmp=3)
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Motion Search Algorithm (mbcmp=3)
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duplicate frames (harddup)
no skipping (-noskip)
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------------- FILE CONTAINER ------------
File Container (.avi)
DOCUMENTATION FOR MENCODER
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#GENERAL%20ENCODING%20OPTIONS% 20(MENCODER%20ONLY)

I need this information by the end of the week.< </div>
Not likely.
Easiest solution is to produce your edited material in FCP and then move the fully rendered, self-contained movie, in whatever format you are producing, to your Linux machine and use its encoder/transcoder.
Compressor will do the job for MP3 and MP4 but you will need to purchase the DIVX codec or transport it to your Mac. You need to talk to DiVX and you need to open the manual for Compressor. Compressor is not easy to learn how to use i na day but whatever you were using on your Linux box was much more difficult to learn.
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hello everyone,
i've been working on a very lengthy project which i am trying to finish up on final cut pro 5 but the problem is final cut is being extremely difficult and will not get through rendering or exporting a single thing without crashing. i don't know if it's ridiculously poor programming or the lack of a plugin that might be the problem. the details are that i recorded myself drawing on photoshop using snapzpro with apple's animation codec and set everything up in pro so that my drawing is time-lapsed and all i have to do now is render and export. i rendered the project once before and it went fine overnight, but it failed to render the cropping i had put in so when i came to render it again and it does nothing but crash, sometimes at 2%, sometimes at 0%. That colour wheel starts turning and never stops (even 9 hours after leaving my macbook) and this even happens when i try to render 2 seconds worth of footage (force quit also says final cut is not responding). truth be told i am extremely frustrated with final cut right now and would appreciate any support i could get on how to get this god awful thing to just work.
i tried using fcp rescue and closing all unnecessary programs but nothing worked. i just don't get why it rendered the first time through and now decides to crash all the time.
plz help, and thx.

You have two problems.
1. As David noted, you are running a non compatible version (PPC) of Final Cut Pro on your intel machine. This is not supported and will cause all sorts of quirky behavior. The only way to solve this issue is to upgrade to a universal binary version.
2. The animation codec is intended as a means to transfer files between programs in a lossless manner. It is not intended to be edited on low power machines and CERTAINLY not on the system drive. Things may work better with an edit friendly codec.
As far as the general crashing, there is no telling at this point whether your files are simply corrupted, the preferences are corrupted, the non-intel nature of the program is causing the crashes as you stress the process during renders or what.
If it is a corrupted file - pay attention to where the render fails. THe files around that point are suspect.
If it is a corrupted pref file, use a program like FCP Rescue 5 to delete the FCP preference files.
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