• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Custom dimensions for DVD output

  Posted by Phil Beastall on July 2, 2008 at 9:39 am

  I have DV CAM footage shot at 16:9 which I am editing. However, for the final DVD output, I want to crop the footage slightly top and bottom to make it appear slightly more widescreen. When exporting using compressor, if the footage was 16:9 uncropped, you flag it as this, but as the footage will be slightly thinner, how do I flag it? Because I don’t want to mark it as 16:9 to find that it stretches the footage back up to this ratio…any ideas?

  Phil Beastall replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  July 2, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  You’ll just have to apply a widescreen mask to the video in FCP and export it to make the crop you want and then just send it through Compressor normally as a 16:9 video.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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  Phil Beastall

  July 2, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  Ah brilliant! Good idea. Thanks 🙂

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