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Aspect Ratio woes
First off, before I post I wanted to mention that I am in a third world country where my internet access is sporadic at best, so I apologize if this question is in the FAQ, because I cannot seem to load it.
The Situation:
I recently bought a Sony DCR610 Hybrid, on which I have been recording footage to mini-DVDs over the past few weeks. Now I am in the editing process.
Since my powerbook is unable to read Mini-DVDs (thank you macintosh, the video-friendly people) I have been forced to rip footage from finalized DVDs on my camera and convert them to NTSC 48 (.DV) with ‘forced anamorphic 16:9’, since I shot them in 16:9 HighQuality on the camcorder.
When I go to edit the footage however, it gets ‘Letterboxed’, with black bars on the left and the right. I have the Anamorphic 16:9 checkbox set, although the letterboxing effect occurs regardless of whether or not I have it set. Furthermore, footage I took in 4:3 DOES stretch to 16:9 w/o black-bars. Lastly, when I open the converted footage in quicktime and not the Canvas viewer, there are no black bars (nor do they occur in the FCP viewer when I am making subclips, just when added to the sequence).
What am I doing wrong? I imagine it stems either from some recursive FCP setting or from the nature of the footage. Please Help me Cowboys and Girls! There aren’t video experts for hundreds of miles!
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3 Replies
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Benjamin- Reset your sequence settings to the correct aspect ratio.
HTH.
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[Benjamin DeVoe] “it gets ‘Letterboxed’, with black bars on the left and the right”
To avoid confusion, letter-boxing refers to black bars top & bottom of frame and pillar-boxing is black bars left and right sides.
As Jerry said, the sequence settings must be the issue. If you look at the motion tab on the pillar-boxed shots under distort it will have a value which is being set when the shot is dropped into the sequence. If you have the anamorphic flag ticked then the value should be zero in a 16:9 timeline.
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Check the “Anamorphic” column in the Browser. FC doesn’t know that your footage is Anamorphic unless you tell him.
Rafael
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