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Posted by Bill Lee on 09/27/79 11:37
In article <Ztydnb7KCeXg0VHeRVn-rg@comcast.com>,
Ty Ford <tyreeford@comcast.net> wrote:
> Pardon my novice status. I'm doing a quick edit in FCP for a project that
> came in as 16:9 DVD. The aspect ratio is fine on the timeline, but when I try
> to export it and play it in Quicktime, the aspect ratio is off and I get a
> vertical squishing?
The simplest (timewise) solution is to open the video in QuickTime
Player Pro[1] and select Window>Show Movie Properties. Select the video
track and click on the Visual Settings button in the middle of the
window. Set the scaled size to be anything you want (it will depend on
if you are using the native NTSC DV resolution of 720 x 480). Save.
That's the simple answer.
The longer and more complex answer depends on what you are doing with
the video: is it for the Web, DVD, or to be written back to tape? If you
are saving it as a QuickTime file for later processing, have you picked
the appropriate file format to minimise re-encoding artifacts? If you
plan to be watching it straight off the computer, you may need to turn
on the high-quality flag in the same window as the scaled size
adjustments.
Was the video captured as 4:3 letterboxed video (i.e. black bars top and
bottom to fill out the frame in FCP)? If so, then the video may not have
been flagged as anamorphic 16:9 video on output which is why QuickTime
is not treating it as anamorphic (I can't remember if FCP->QT export
does the right thing anyway...). Check to make sure that the Anamorphic
flag is checked in the sequence properties (Browser or Cmd-9).
(OK, I just checked) FCP doesn't seem to be setting the output file as
16:9 anamorphic for NTSC at least. Set the right size in QT Play Pro is
the fastest fix.
Bill Lee
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