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Please help desperate
To start off I should say that I’m working with 16:9 footage from a Canon XL-2 and editing on FCP HD. When I export a sequence from FCP as a quicktime movie to my desktop the video becomes squeezed back to 4:3. However, this only happens to footage that I have color corrected in FCP. Footage that I haven’t color corrected, when I export it as a quicktime movie, looks just as it should, in 16:9. What is the problem here? Please help as I need to get this footage on DVD by tomorrow. Thanks.
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I’ve never had the footage export correctly out of FCP if it is anamorphic. Nor should it, really.
Change the SIZE in the export options to reflect the 16×9 and you’ll be fine.
(Hx16)/9=W
Good luck,
CaptM
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I have exported other footage, un color-corrected in this manner and been fine. For some reason this way won’t work for me.
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I’ve han this happen a few times. I found that if you load the offending shot into the viewer and then put it into the timeline again, for whatever reason, it will now be letterboxed. I recently put a 16×9 sequence into a 4×3 sequence and a good number of the scenes didn’t letterbox. Usually they were scenes I had applied a filter to. When I brought them into the timeline, from the original source material and then added the filters again, all was well.
Worth a try anyhow.
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I don’t know if I fully understand the problem but here some info that might help:
Quicktime has differnet pixel aspect ratios as well as different frame aspect ratios.
16:9 and 4:3 Quicktime movies have the same number of pixels, but in the 4:3 movie the pixels are 0.9 pixel aspect ratio (normal) , in the 16:9 clip they are 1.2 pixel aspect ratio (anamorphic). That’s why there’s an “anamorphic” tick box for each of the clips in your bins.
Computers use square pixels to display Quicktime files so 4:3 will look pretty much normal but 16:9 will look more squished. I think when you export movies from FCP they are supposed to have a flag that tells other programs whether they have normal or anamorphic pixels. What’s important is when you re-import those files into another software like after effects or if you make frame grabs, make sure that the info has passed over. In After Effects, sometimes you have to ‘interpret footage’ which is basically where you set whether a source file has normal or anamorphic pixels.
Hope this helps!
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