• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting 16:9 still image

  Posted by Mumblinjr on March 23, 2007 at 11:18 pm

  Hey gang. I’m trying to export stills from my FCP show. We are working in 720p 24 (16:9). When I export a still it comes out 4:3 – the aspect ratio is always squished. Is there any remedy to this? Also, I don’t have Photoshop on this rig.

  Rafael Amador replied 18 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  March 24, 2007 at 12:02 am

  An anamorphic format will yeild anamorphic stills upon export. Export a small chunck of your video containing the still frame to an 8-bit uncompressed QT at the non-anamorphic full frame size of your video and then export a still from that using QT conversion.

  DRW
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  Rafael Amador

  March 24, 2007 at 4:34 am

  Open your still in Photoshop and go to the IMAGE MENU> Pixels Aspect ratio and choose the one of your original footage. Then Photoshop will display the image properly and not like square pixels.
  Cheers,
  Rafael
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  Julia Barreto

  November 9, 2007 at 3:12 am

  sorry, but as far as I now the pixel aspect in photoshop is for preview only.

  So if this is write the only thing would be do what David said. I confess I didn’t understand but all try that.

  Thanks David.
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  Rafael Amador

  November 11, 2007 at 4:24 am

  Dear Julia:
  Photoshop only works with SQUARE pixels. But allows you to display those pixels in other fashions.
  If you open a PS document with 720×576 you will see an almost square image. But if you display the same doc as Annamorfic, your image will be displayed as 16×9.
  Same document, same picture, same pixels, but just displayed in two differnt ways.
  Rafael

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