Posted by Ty Ford on 06/13/06 11:38

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


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