• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  aspect ratio problems when onlining

  Posted by Tim Pearce on October 15, 2006 at 4:10 pm

  Hi,
  I checked the old posts and couldn’t find an answer.

  I’m using Ken Stone’s article to online my project. I followed the instructions except for the point right after the new online file is created and just before you capture footage. He says to change the Audio/Video Settings to go from Capture Preset (DV to OfflineRE NTSC (Photo JPEG) to DV NTSC 48 kHz). I did that. I also changed the Sequence Preset (which wasn’t mentioned in the article) from Offline RT NTSC (Photo JPEG) to DV NTSC 48 kHz.

  When I captured the full-res footage, the clips were squeezed to look more widescreen. The image hadn’t been cropped, just stretched.

  These are the sequence settings for my offline project:
  Frame Size: 320×240 Multimedia Large (4:3)
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square – (Anamorphic 16:9 box not checked.)
  Field Dominance: none
  Editing Timebase: 29.97
  Quicktime video Settings
  Compressor: Photo – JPEG
  Quality: 35%

  These are the sequence settings for my online project:
  Frame Size: 720×480 NTSC DV (3:2)
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC- CCIR 610/DV(720×280)- (Anamorphic 16:9 box not checked.)
  Field Dominance: Lower (even)
  Editing Timebase: 29.97
  Quicktime video Settings
  Compressor: DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
  Quality: 100%

  I filmed the original footage on miniDV (NTSC) with a Canon GL2 3CCD camera. The footage was onlined with a Sony DCR-HC32 1CCD miniDV (NTSC) camera. I’m using FCP 5.0.4 on an apple powerbook g4. OS 10.4.8

  I’m sure the solution is something small that I’m missing. Thanks a lot for any help!

  Tim Pearce replied 19 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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