• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Aspect Ratio – Sequence and Capture not matching

  Posted by Karen Tremain on September 30, 2009 at 6:58 pm

  Hi. Can anyone help me with this? I captured some footage in FCP 5 with the capture presets set to DVPAL anamorphic. This was the correct setting and the footage in the viewer looks fine. My sequence settings are also DVPAL anamorphic but when I look at my images from the timeline in the canvas they are distorted. The width is fine but the the height is crushed by about half an inch at both top and bottom. I can’t understand why there should be a problem when all the settings are matching.

  Any help much appreciated.

  Karen Tremain replied 16 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  October 1, 2009 at 12:57 am

  In the captured footage bin, check the anamorphic column and make sure all the clips have a tick to indicate the anamorphic flag is correctly set.

  If it is not set, select and tick. You should then be able to edit in the shots without it distorting. The shots that are already in the timeline probably have a distort setting like -33.3% (or is it +33.3%. You can change one to 0 and then paste that attribute to all the other distorted clips to correct.
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  Karen Tremain

  October 1, 2009 at 7:16 am

  Thank you Michael – that’s really helpful. Problem now solved.

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