• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Format Clarification For A Newbie

  Posted by Harry Kramer on February 24, 2008 at 10:59 pm

  Hello

  Tried asking a pro but couldn’t get an answer to my problem so I’m hoping someone with patience for a newcomer could help.

  I’m using a Canon XHA-1 and shooting setting is DV30F. My Easy Setup in Final cut is DV NTSC 720×480. When I import the video into Final Cut, the size is 640×480 and it looks correct. When I export using Quicktime (current settings) the file is back to 720×480 and looks stretched. If I resize using Quicktime Conversion to 640×480, the output looks correct. Am I banging my head against the wall thinking that the final should be 720×480 without the stretching effect or is the 640×480 proportion correct?

  Thank you much.

  Harry Kramer replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Sacci

  February 25, 2008 at 3:05 am

  640×480 is the computer square pixel equivalent to NTSC’s non-square pixel. So the question is where are you seeing that your footage is 640×480?

  You should be capturing footage as 720×480 (sd widescreen or 4:3 are both 720×480 just the aspect ratio of the pixel is different .9 vs 1.2) when you view the footage in QT player it will display as 640×480 for 4:30 or 640×360 for 16:9)
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  Harry Kramer

  February 25, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  That little definition was extremely helpful. Thank you. Already have finished some tests.

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