Where do you change the timeline project settings, eg 1920x1080 or 720x576 etc ?

Hi.

Kevs, I think you need to watch these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CskyX9tbFw

CJ

Kevs999:

Where do you change the timeline project settings, eg 1920x1080 or 720x576 etc ?

Project window > Format tab

Apparently you set the format when you first drag your clip on to the timeline, a dialogue box appears.

The format tab doesn't appear to allow you to change the format from what you already have set.

Kevs999:

Apparently you set the format when you first drag your clip on to the timeline, a dialogue box appears. The format tab doesn't appear to allow you to change the format from what you already have set.

I'm sorry, but I haven't used MC First, so I can't tell you for sure. In the full version, you set the format when you initially create the project.

After that, once you are in the project, the format tab allows you to change the format within the same FPS. So if you're in a 1080i/59.94 project, you can switch to a 30i NTSC project, but not a 25i PAL project.

Related to this, does anyone know a way to change the frame-rate after you have accepted the setting?  I chose the wrong frame-rate in the auto dialog which came up and couldn't find a way to go back.  Ended up creating a new project.

Simon_h:

does anyone know a way to change the frame-rate after you have accepted the setting?

Project window > Format tab

This only works if you're changing from one format/frame rate within the same base rate. For example, if you're switching from one 25 FPS format to another, you can do it in the format tab, but you can't change from a 25 FPS format to a 24 FPS format.

Simon_h:

Ended up creating a new project.

Depending on what you needed to change, this may have been the best choice.

I'm experimenting with First to determine whether it's worthwhile recommending it to my students.

When I start a First project it creates a default 23.98fps sequence and I can find no way of changing the framerate when I start a new project. If I create a new sequence in the new project it's also 23.98.

Is there a way to tell a new project that it should have a particular framerate, eg 25fps? Is there a drop-down I'm missing?

I've watched the video that Christine recommended. It doesn't help me much (except to show that somewhere, somehow, 29.97 is poissible).

For use in Europe, you have to be able to select 25fps.

Cheers

Rodney

Problem solved. You have to drop something into the timeline to establish the settings.

Newbies better be sure they chose the right clip to start with.

That sort of philosophy seems a bit "amateur" to me and doesn't encourage (to my old editor's mind) decisive decision making. I liked the old FCP7 method (I think it was FCP7) of having you make a framerate and raster decision (even if the selection panel was a catastrophe) and then warning you if your first edit didn't conform to your project set-up.

At least you had to think about it.

Other than that my first look at First looks all right.