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16:9 capture looks 4:3 in FCP
Hy!
I shoot a wedding in 16:9 aspect ratio with a Sony FX7 but after the capture FCP show the clips in 4:3.If I open the clips with QTP they look properly.I checked online for solutions but I couldn’t find one.Thanx! -
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The FX7 shoots both HDV and DV formats Bogdan … which one did you shoot and how/which format did you capture?
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I shoot in DV.
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OK. DV is a native 4:3 format. If you are recording as 16:9 then what you are really doing is recording an Anamorphic 16:9 image … that’s a 16:9 image distorted so as to fill the full 4:3 image area. It is only 16:9 in the viewfinder and when played back as 16:9, but on tape it is strictly 4:3. What you may be seeing is your footage being played back non-anamorphically ie in its native 4:3 format. To have FCP treat it correctly you simply need to tell the app that the footage is to be treated as Anamorphic. You can do this during capture by specifying a relevant Anamorphic capture preset eg DV PAL Anamorphic or DV NTSC Anamorphic, you can also add this Anamorphic tag after the fact by simply marking it as such either in the Browser window (in List View you can scroll through the columns to display Anamorphic column and then click in that column to mark a clip as such), or you can flag a clip as such in the clip’s Item Properties > Format tab (Cmd 9).
Let us know if that fixes your issue
Best
Andy -
I captured the clips in Dv Pal.I delete everything and capture again and now is ok.I did not change any setting and I don’t get it why now is fine and before it was wrong.Thanks for your help!
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