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Also worth noting (hopefully this will mean something to you) when I resize the problem clip in my timeline, it grows to the size it should be in the preview window, but when I finish dragging (let go of the mouse button) it returns to normal. It's showing the size of the source file it's referring to, and then resizing down again when I'm done changing. Am I missing something really obvious?

Sorry I must be blind. Yeah the Pixel Aspect Ratio was already set to the correct one. I'm at a loss too. I really do not want to have to do all my cuts again. I've literally JUST finished doing just that a second time!

It had prompted me to make sequence settings match clip settings, but that was a while ago when I was working with DVCPRO50.

And again, if it's working for the exact same clip dragged into the timeline, why shouldn't it be working for this? They're right next to eachother in the timeline, but they're sized differently! Defies logic and is driving me nuts!

I don't see a setting for pixel aspect ratio in the settings......

It works perfectly for the exact same clip when dragged into the timeline manually. But for some reason does not work for the same clip added via 'reconnect media'. Which makes no sense. They're the exact same clip in the exact same sequence!

I've actually already tried all that. It still ends up squashed. i really have no clue why this is happening just because I started editing with DVCPRO50 but switched to prores422 half way through.

I'm really not liking the idea of having to start from scratch AGAIN. There must be a simple way to fix this.

*double post*

JasonN said:

This is a preview video from the new V2 cut of my 3-in-1 Prequel edit Shadows of the Old Republic, but I'm including the video here as well because it includes an example of redubing the analysis droid from the deleted "Dart Analysis" scene of AOTC, which rewrites the toxic dart into something different and has the droid giving Obi-Wan info about the planet Kamino instead of Dex (just skip to 1:30 of the video for the scene):

http://www.vimeo.com/8643554

Excellent! Almost exactly what I have in the works for my edit. I absolutely love the voice you've done. Is it your own? The original droid voices pissed me off.

This is really getting on my nerves now. The video that I'm currently editing, which I changed from being sourced from a DVCPRO50 to a Prores422 file, appears to be the wrong size. Whereas the exact same file dragged into the timeline normally is correct. In the first image is the one I changed via 'reconnect media' and as you can see, checking anamorphic 16:9 squashes the image ridiculously. The 2nd image looks correct, but the method of dragging it into the timeline just isn't an option for my project, because most of my cuts are already done!

Help! :(

As cool as I think this new Adywan logo looks, for originality and consistency's sake, I prefer the old one. I would much prefer to have the same logo as in ANH:R but with a slightly different theme to it. I think it has more of an impact than something that's a rip off of an existing iconic logo.

Just my opinion.

So the one on the right is how it's meant to be for working with in Final Cut, correct?

Also, in regards to what you said about it possibly being non anamorphic (don't even know what that would mean for my edit) does this shed any light on things?

If this is all wrong, could someone please tell me the best way to rip using Mpeg Streamclip. Thankyou! :)

It's rather strange, but when I manually drag them into my timeline, it ends up tall, yet when I just change the source from dvcpro50 to prores, they're more letterboxed.

The latter is what I always assumed was "correct". Now I'm not so sure.

Which would you guys say is the correct size and what would I do to change it to the correct one? Remember, these are both referring to exactly the same video file, but for some reason, are displaying differently depending on the method in which they were added to the timeline.

Resolution of the original file is 720x576 (PAL 16:9)

I imagine so, but wouldn't this be at the expense of quality?

This isn't really my biggest problem though. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this one.....

I demuxed an ac3 of the whole movie and then split it into 6 wav files.

There seems to be some missing audio following the split, which I noticed when I got to the bit with Zam Wessell getting shot by the poison dart. There is no longer a "whoosh" noise of the dart flying through the air, or even an impact noise. All we see is the dart impacting completely silently, and then zam making some very fake sounding choking noises.

The noise was present in the AC3. I checked. I followed adigitalman's guide to the letter several times and it seems the sound in this part (and i can assume other parts) is missing each time.

Is there something glaringly obvious I'm missing? Like extra channels? I thought there were only 6....

EDIT: Never mind. I found out via an export that the sound is actually there in channels 5 and 6 but just wasn't previewing in my timeline for whatever reason. Maybe I need to render the audio before it can preview that many channels.

I'm still learning my way around this program so sorry if i seem like a dummy! I'm planning some intensive editing over the next few days to get things back on track. I'm already finding editing with 6 channels a joy compared to before, and am amazed at what can be accomplished through tinkering with the discrete elements. Starting from scratch in another program may have been the best thing I ever did :)

It won't be long before all I have left to do is colour correct and learn after effects, at which point I'd appreciate any help!

I've encoded the film and deleted scenes to Prores422, and while the main movie is fine, the deleted scenes are enlarged and take up the entire screen (whereas with the main movie, there is letterboxing).

This did not happen with DVCPRO50, and the original M2Vs were the right size in premiere.

I'm confused!

Thankyou very much Octorox! :)

I actually already started editing it using DVCPRO50 based on the snippets of info I've found on the net.

However, seeing as I'm using FCS, I'll have to give Prores422 a shot. Tell me, what makes it better than DVCPRO50, and why would having FCE mean I shouldn't/couldn't use it? Just curious :)

Merry Christmas everyone! :)

I've run into some unusual problems when starting my project from scratch. Final Cut does NOT like the M2V video files I was using in my Premiere timeline (ripped by following Adigitalman's guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing).

It took forever to import them, and locked up about 5 times before it would, and would freeze constantly whenever I so much as moved the time slider, because it was unrendered. So I rendered it. It took 2 hours, but only rendered 3/4 of the film. (I've tried this again several times, in a fresh timeline, with a different ripped M2V, with the same result.

Everything is smooth when dealing with the rendered parts, but as soon as the slider reaches the unrendered part, it freezes again (and even if I was to endure this, I can't see a preview, so I'd be editing blind)

I find it strange that Final Cut would have such a problem with something that Premiere handled easy as pie.

Perhaps the M2V demux approach isn't the best for editing on a Mac? I wouldn't know because I've searched high and low on the net and found very little concrete info on the subject of re-editing dvds. Anything I have found, there's conflicting opinions on what's best. Some say FCP can edit M2V natively no problem (tell that to my mac) others say you should use MPEG Streamclip to convert the DVD to a DV file. Others say variations of Quicktime format such as photojpeg.

Basically, I'm kind of lost. I assumed that M2V was the way to go because it's as unchanged from the source DVD as you're going to get (correct me if I'm wrong)

My mac obviously CAN interpret and edit the M2V footage. It's just the fact that it's refusing to render the whole thing that's getting on my tits!

I just want something I can edit, where there's the absolute minimum of quality loss.

Help me, Mac based fan editors. You're my only hope!

Well I feel I have to say that if you're expecting something in the same league as ESB:R, you're going to be sorely disappointed! :p

I've set up my Mac Mini so now to learn Final Cut! Wish me luck!

That's my plan (via hologram) as seen in my mockups on my thread. My Mac Mini should be arriving tomorrow, so I'm going to be doing my cuts again in Final Cut, then moving onto all that funky jazz.

Ghost said:

if Ady is re-inserting Boba's old voice in ESB, he most likely won't make Jango into Boba.

Why do you think this?

I've just placed an order for a Mac Mini, so I'll be starting this project from scratch in Final Cut using a Premiere export as a reference for duplicating my current progress. Can't wait for it to arrive :D

I hate the new Zealand accents for Jango and the clones. Nothing against the accent itself, just the logic (or lack thereof) behind it grates on me. Accents are not genetic.

Also, I find it inconsistent with the OT, in which we only ever got American, English, or indistinct accents. Nothing particularly strong.

I had the same thought myself. I think it could work, but obviously is restricted to cutaways.

Best wishes to you and your family, Ady.

Have sent you a PM, Ady :)

I've just updated my main post a bit, and would like to use this post as an excuse to ask anyone here who knows: where can I get some idiot proof After Effects tutorials for frame by frame recolouring of specific details (fett's visor) as well as more complicated recolours (geonosis, kamino's sky etc)?

I need to do a global color correction, and then a more careful scene by scene colour correction. Again, I can't for the life of me find tutorials. I'd love to just get hold of Ady's After Effects project when he's finished with AOTC, and then just substitute the source video.

I'm also curious. How does the colour correction in After Effects differ from the colour correction already in video editing programs like Premiere and Final Cut? How is it better?

I also need tutorials on compositing (for the sidious hologram on boba's screen) and matting out characters (removing young boba, for example).

It'd be the actual project file then, no? I've always figured that After Effects is a lot like Premiere in that the project file doesn't actually contain a copy of the movie itself, but rather the information of what to do with it.

Am I wrong?