• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting in FCP 7

  Posted by Lisa Gilbert on November 9, 2009 at 5:31 pm

  Using Final Cut Pro 7, when I export “a quicktime movie” or export “using quicktime conversion,” (even when I custom set the size of the movie file) quicktime reads the file this way:

  Format: 720×486
  Normal Size: 655×486
  Current Size: 655×486

  When I re-import the file into FCP, everything seems to be fine, however, I don’t understand why quicktime is displaying the movie at 655×486. My only guess is that Quicktime (7.6.4), is trying to compensate for the square/nonsquare pixels issue.

  Oddly, however, once I have the movie file opened in Quicktime, I can then export it from Quicktime and make a file that reads:

  Format: 720×486
  Normal Size: 720×486
  Current Size: 720×486

  What is happening here? I have not had this problem in previous versions of Final Cut.

  Alex Barreto replied 15 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Alex Barreto

  July 7, 2010 at 10:41 pm

  We were having this same issue. Very frustrating until we found the fix – which is really simple. Once you export your clip from the timeline, open the resulting .mov file in Quicktime Pro. Open the Movie Properties window. Under the Presentation tab, un-check the “Conform aperture to” check mark. Your movie should change size to 720×486. Make sure and save the file and you should be set.

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