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Posted by Pat Horridge on 06/14/06 10:09
"Ty Ford" <tyreeford@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:deKdnZTzkO0uPhPZnZ2dnUVZ_qSdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:45:23 -0400, Pat Horridge wrote
> (in article <e6m1e7$391$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>):
>
>>
>> "stereo guy" <paul@psaudio.com> wrote in message
>> news:1150147658.802188.109280@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>> My camera, the Canon XL2 is native 16:9 widescreen as you probably
>>> know. Meaning, instead of the standard 720x480 and then use 1.2 wide
>>> pixels to achieve the
>>> 16:9 ratio as takes place in other cameras, its resolution is 869x480
>>> with square pixels.
>>>
>>> I cannot find anywhere in Final Cut Studio Express that it can be
>>> customized to work in this aspect ration. Everything I see suggests
>>> 720x480. Do I need Final Cut Pro instead or am I just SOL? Or are
>>> there better options for post production without sacraficing quality?
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any help I can get.
>>>
>> The camera may well be 16:9 at the CCD chip but the tape format only
>> records
>> 720X480
>> The lines scanend from the CCD block are subsampled donw to 720 onto
>> tape.
>> Creating an anamorphic image on tape.
>>
>> When you capture you need to flag that the source is 16:9 (don't know how
>> this is done in FCSE) it will then stretch it horizontally to come back
>> to
>> 16:9
>>
>> Don't feel cheated, even Digibetas work this way in 16:9 mode.
>>
>>
>
> Hmmm, fascinating. Thanks for that. It may help to explain why after
> editing
> and looking good on the time line, my masters are vertically squished.
>
> I wonder if he hard drive I use to record directly is also formatized to
> 720x480.
>
> So much to learn before I die..
>
> Regards,
>
> Ty Ford
The hard drive must be dealing with 720X480 as that is the DVspec.
What do you mean the masters are vertically squished?
it could be that the edit app is letter boxing the output by adding black
bars top and bottom.
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