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I Have Tried EVERYTHING and Still CANNOT get a 16×9 video out of FCP2
Hey guys,
I literally have tried every option I could think of. I’ve looked at many different forums, and have even used my old version, FCP 5.1, which worked fine for turning out 16×9 videos. But I cannot get a 16×9 video out of FCP 6 for some reason. It keeps giving me 4×3!! No matter what I tell it to do!!
I’ve tried messing with the pixel aspect ratios, different 16×9 sizes/measurements, different 16×9 settings (which happen to be HD, which all by the way shrink way down when I choose them). I’ve tried anamorphicizer, which made no difference.
I even thought I had managed to figure it out last night when I tried capturing some new footage and chose the anamorphic capture setting, which seemed to work as it had black bars on top… but nope!! I’m really getting frustrated here!!! Can anyone give me some pointers that you think I haven’t tried!??
By the way- Compressor hasn’t worked for me… and regular quicktime movie hasn’t worked for me. And pretty much everything else I’ve tried hasn’t worked for me, as well.
Help me get out of the 4×3 realm and back into the 16×9!!
Thanks!
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SD or HD? Is Anamorphic ticked in your sequence settings? How are you getting out of FCS2 – SDI to tape or Quicktime movie?
What are you pixel settings on the quicktime conversion? How are you monitoring? Although you say you have tried everything, you give us almost no information to guess what you are doing.
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It’s a Panasonic DVX SD. Anamorphic is in fact ticked in sequence settings. Quicktime movie, which I said I tried- but yes, quicktime movie is what I need. Pixel settings are H.264, 1500 kbs, 24fps, Dimensions are usually 720×640, which I have tried and tried again, but it keeps giving me a 4×3 frame, even in the preview frame. It will not give me 16×9.
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[Jon Casey] “Dimensions are usually 720×640, which I have tried and tried again, but it keeps giving me a 4×3 frame, even in the preview frame. It will not give me 16×9.”
An anamorphic DV clip (your source material) is 720×480. To export an h.264 Quicktime movie with a 16:9 aspect ratio, specify dimensions of 640×360, square pixels.
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Oh yeah, I meant 480. And I’ll try that later. Thanks for the input.
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So I tried those exact specs Alan, and it still came out pillarbox…
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If your output is to DVD, DVDSP will stretch your movie to 16×9, you just need to select that format in the inspector when the track is selected.
Have a wonderful day.
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If your getting pillar boxed then there is something wrong going on.
I will tell you that I have found the anamorphic check boxes to
cause trouble in fcp 6.01thats why an anamorphic project will not have ANY anamorphic
buttons checked on the sequence or anywere. JUST THE CLIPS
are checked as anamorphic. And its not good
enough to just check them in the bins. You have to actually
remove them from the time line and replace them. (at least thats what I found)I push the 16:9 button on my broadcast monitor to see it properly
to the end.the reason I do this is, I ran into some very odd problems like
you are having. but with random clips pillarboxing for no apparent
reason. The workaround is to do what I explained above.You may even have to do a new sequence if the pillarboxing
does not go away after doing all the above. I know this is a weird one…from there you should be able to use a quicktime export to
convert it into 640×360 for viewing. -
Hey Alan, so I tried to export a quicktime h.264 short again and did what you asked. But were you talking about in compressor or just in good ole quicktime conversion? I did it in quicktime conversion specified those dimensions (custom-640×360), had clicked square in the timeline sequence settings, and ticked preserve aspect ratio. But still came out with a pillar box movie.
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DO NOT tick “preserve aspect ratio.” That’s why you’re getting pillarboxing.
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