Frame Size Issues

Prairieboy

Prairieboy

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Howdy folks

I am ready to be dazzled by all your smarts.

I am working in a 1280x1080 sequence. The content is 1366x768 JPG's. Now in the viewer the pictures are full frame, and yet once they are pulled into the timeline the images only take up about 3/4 of the frame (just inside title safe). What gives, the image is bigger than the sequences frame size, yet comes in smaller. What am I missing?
Does it have anything to do with square and round pixel, that one gets me every time.

Thanks in advance.
 
Often times pics will show up not filling the frame even though the are larger. I don't know why. But hit the "W" key to turn on wireframes and resize at will.
 
if the sizes you gave are correct, your stills aren't bigger than your sequence res. i'm no einstein, but i'm almost 100% certain that 1080 is still bigger than 768.

by default, fcp scales stills so that the biggest dimension of the still fits within the biggest dimension of the sequence. (so it's scaling the 1366 horizontal dimension to fit within the 1280 of the sequence.) if you click the motion tab for a still in your timeline, you'll see the "scale" dimension set to around 94% or so. if i'm to believe my calculator, this would put your still's vertical dimension down to about 722, which is around 2/3 of the vertical res of your sequence.

if you're working with non-square pixels, this will further complicate things. are you working at the dvcproHD preset? i haven't worked with it, but based on how it handles other non-square pixel formats, fcp will probably display your the video as if it was 1920 pixels wide, which is how many square pixels it would take to achieve a 16:9 aspect ratio if the vertical resolution is 1080.

so basically, if you're doing what i think you're doing, fcp is showing your 1366x768 stills in what amounts to a 1920 x1080 field. photoshop cs has presets for hd, including 1920x1080. try resizing one of your stills to that size, and see what happens when you import it into your fcp project. that ought to do it- i just tried it myself with a 1920x1080 psd i brought into a dvcproHD 60i sequence.

if you have phooshop, it's almost absurdly easy to record a macro where you resize and save a still, and then process all of your stills as a batch. that should sort you out.
 
discs of tron said:
i'm no einstein, but i'm almost 100% certain that 1080 is still bigger than 768.
Click to expand...

Obviously I am not either. Boy do I feel stupid, thats what happens when numbers and eighteen hours of work in one day cross. Thanks for your help.
 
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