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  720×486 sequence >conversion to 640×480 in order to correct stretching?!

  Posted by Lisa Rolley on February 19, 2009 at 4:45 pm

  Hello Cow friends,

  I posted yesterday about a different issue with this same project that i just picked up at the end of and this one i am totally confused about – i spoke with the previous editor and he also has no clue as to why this problem is occurring.

  The project is D1 – 720×486 – uncompressed 10-bit – lower fields

  We have a Blackmagic HD extreme card and the issue I am having is that when i kick out a quicktime movie from FCP and playback in QT things are being stretched in the resulting 720×486 QT file.

  I am being given assets from AE & Maya guys which seem correct:

  Animation, 720×486, CCIR 601 lower fields

  BUT when I add the assets to the D1 sequence and render out a full quality QT file the resulting file is stretched – i norder to correct this the previous editor and now I myself have been exporting with QT conversion making an Animation 640×480 qt file in order to correct the stretching issue.

  What I dont get is if the assets i am getting from AE guys are 720×486 CCIR 601 and my sequence is the same then when i export why is there stretching in the file?

  thanks

  Lisa

  John Pale replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Pale

  February 19, 2009 at 4:50 pm

  Where are you seeing stretching?

  If you are seeing this in Quicktime Player, that is normal, as QT player does not know about D1 pixels.
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  Lisa Rolley

  February 19, 2009 at 4:59 pm

  Hello

  The stretching is most noticeable in the product shot at the end but honestly throughout the whole spot this issue can be seen.

  i guess whats throwing me off is the fact that I am getting assets which match my sequence in every way but when i export the full res qt file its stretching things out. In the meantime i will just continue exporting with conversion in order to make it 640×480 and correct the issue – it just seems strange to me and I so desperately want to know why this is happenning.

  thank you for the fast response

  best

  Lisa
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  John Pale

  February 19, 2009 at 5:10 pm

  Again…are you seeing the stretching in Quicktime Player or within FCP?

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