Basics of Customizing Your Timeline in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is CJ South representing expertvillage.com, in this clip I’m going to show you how you can customize your timeline. Now I’m going to walk you through customizing your timeline, mainly the sequence in the timeline. So go ahead go right up to sequence and then come down to settings, okay now there’s a whole bunch of settings in here I’m not going to take you through all of them because frankly you’re not going to be using all of them and a lot of it gets pretty technical so for right now we’ll just go through the basics, you have different tabs let’s start with the general tab, you have frame size 720x480 that’s basic for NTSCDB you know you can always change it to NTSC or down to HDV or HD whatever you’re working with but the default is NTSCDB, you have your pixel aspartic ratio, we touched briefly on pixel when we were talking in the view between square and non-square, you also have anamorphic if you have shot in a DV camera widescreen most likely it’s anamorphic and in that point you’d want this checked off to be editing with an anamorphic widescreen. Let me see if this will update real time, yes see when you click that you notice to the right here the canvas here stretches out because it’s applying for an anamorphic image which that is not anamorphic, so don’t worry about that, field denominates that’s just which field is dominating field whether it’s lower or upper just make sure one of those are selected, it doesn’t really matter for right now and then we have editing time base that’s your frame rate right there, quick time video settings this is for compressor options, why don’t you just leave that DVDC pro unless of course you just need specific needs but for most of time that’s what it’ll be and then of course for the audio settings you have your rate and kilohertz your depth and if you want stereo mix or channel grouped. So now let’s move over to the video processing tab, this I’m not going to talk about just leave it as is, you can read up on it later but it gets pretty complicated."