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Aspect ratio changes when exporting freeze frames
I have searched tons of forums and have tried various ways to fix this problem to no avail.
Shot with Sony HVR A1U in HDV 1080i in 16:9
Created freeze frames of various shots and pulled them into the timeline
Added filter – Video – deinterlace (at someone’s suggestion) to each clip
Selected a point on clip at random and left cursor there and chose Export to QT conversion
Chose Still Image (and tried various formats, jpeg, tiff, 24frames, 25, 29 etc.)No matter what i do the image is stretched once the viewer brings it up as a still. It formats it as 4:3 instead of 16:9.
I have checked my timeline and made sure the aspect ratio was correct – at the suggestion of someone else (based on another forum here) i tried to change the sequence setting to square – but that didn’t help.
Please – i would really like to fix this. I need these stills for promotional material. Thanks!
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HDV is an anamorphc format. It contains 1440×1080 pixels, but it is shown at 1920×1080.
Final Cut is simply exporting the pixels you have and leaving them alone.
You can fix it by using a photo-editing application to re-size it to 1920×1080 (or 1440×810).
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What are the settings on your original timeline?
What are the settings on the timeline you used for the stills that you “pulled into the timeline?”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Please disregard my previous post.
Jeff is correct, I thought that had been changed, but after a test I found that exporting stills from the timleine using QT Conversion leaves them squeezed, however, if you export a reference video and export a still from QT Player, it will scale the still automatically and properly to 16×9.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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So Final Cut and Quicktime work differently?
Lovely.
I can get used to just about anything, but inconsistency is pretty annoying!
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You were right Dave. It had changed, and then changed back. In FCE4 export still image converts to 190×1080. In FCP6 it did this as well. In either 6.0.2 or 6.0.3 it changed back. I think because there were complaints by people who were going to Photoshop for fixes in image sequences. The scaling and rescaling was a huge time waster. So now still images reverted as well. It would have been nice is still image export and image sequence export had different behavior.
All the best,
Tom
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come again? export a reference video?
how would QT know to match the video and still?
i would like to avoid having to photoshop it…
There is an anamorphic option on the settings for the sequence….would that do anything?
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[Harlie Dover] “come again? export a reference video?
how would QT know to match the video and still?”
Export a QT reference movie or self contained QT of your timeline using current settings.
Open that in QT player and park on any frame and export a still (the setting is called “Movie to Picture” in QT Player). Export a still and you don’t have to do anything in Photoshop. That’s it… The anamorphic setting you refer to will accomplish zip.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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[Tom Wolsky] “You were right Dave. It had changed, and then changed back.”
Thanks for clarifying Tom.
Maybe the folks up in Cupertino think all of have someone on staff fulltime to do continuity. Its certainly getting hard to follow all the changes they’re making, both necessary and unecessary, and all of this back and forth stuff. Creating workarounds and then finding out they no longer work is getting rather tedious.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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I am having this issue too, this thread was helpful. I am just using Skitch to screengrab what I want, not ideal but it works and it is super fast.
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