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letterboxed shots
i have some shots from a client that have been delivered as 720 X 486 and in the final cut pro sequence it shows those clips as being letterboxed. when i bring them in to AE they are stretched too tall. i have tried a bunch of diferent settings on the “interpret footage” box and i cant get the clips to sit in letterboxed format. my question is, if i have to make some adjustments to those shots ( fixing backgrounds ) and create titles for them that later go back into the FCP timeline. what format do i work on them in AE ? if i just work on the stretched copies, my titles will look conversely squashed when they end up in FCP.
for the titles:
should i just scale the clips vertically to make them look allright in a 720 X 486 then make my titles to sit on those but export them separately ?
for the BG fixes:
should i just work on the stretched version in AE and trust that everything will get squished back in the FCP timeline ?
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You can manually make the picture taller or wider in AE. Just click on the clip and four small yellow boxes show up in the middle of each side. From there, stretch the image as needed.
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is there a specific size or number in terms of scale that it needs to go to? it just feels weird to be just moving it all around. dont pixels like to be stacked properly ?
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it say that it should looked stretched on your computer monitor because they are not square pixels. It is probably best to work with them in this stretched state using AE’s built in pixel aspect ratio correction.
it is not a good idea to just scale it to look correct in AE, because then it is not going to look correct back on a tv.
do a search in the creative cow archives for “square pixels” and similar seaches and you should find heaps of info on the subject.
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