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So, I'm working on a project in FCP 5, and am having a weird Multiclip issue.  Multiclip itself is working fine as far as creating and editing the clip.  I'm just going back and forth between 2 angles, so it's a pretty simple one.

The issue is coming up with one of the clips (angle 1).  There's a little bit of stuff on the sides that I don't want in the frame, so I'm zooming the image to about 109% to get rid of the unwanted bits.  However, when I do this, that angle gets really blurry and weird in the Multiclip.  It doesn't matter if I apply the zoom before or after the creation of the multiclip, the same result is coming up.

With "normal" editing, I'm having no problems.  I can take the clip (angle 1) and play it by itself in the timeline at 100 or 109% zoom, and it still looks just fine when I play it.

Any ideas as to why this is happening, and what I might do to make it stop?

So far the only thing I've come up with is to use the Multiclip to do my angle switching, and then go back and use all of the timecode I/O info generated by the multiclip for each of the 2 angles, and go back and manually punch the numbers in and edit the 2 angles together from that info.  Doing that gives me the cut points that I want, the zoom factor, and no blurriness, but it's rather time consuming.

Thanks in advance for any help!