• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Why can’t doesn’t my widescreen video export properly?

  Posted by Sally Obrien on June 6, 2010 at 7:04 pm

  I shot a video on my SD DVX100 in widescreen format.

  I probably digitized the footage incorrectly, because I didn’t change the FCP settings to anamorphic when I brought the footage into my computer.

  I’ve edited the piece, and keep trying different ways to export so that it plays at full screen. Right now there’s always a black box around it, and never fills up the whole screen.

  What am I doing wrong? I tried different things like changing FCP Audio/Video sequence settings to “DV NTSC 48khz Anamorphic”.

  When I export it as a quicktime I change my settings as well to “DV NTSC 48 khz Anamorphic”.

  Similarly when I export to DVD using compressor, I use the settings to “Mpeg2 High quality Encode Widescreen”.

  All of these always give me the same outcome: a video that won’t play at full screen. I don’t have to go back and redigitize the footage, do I?

  Much appreciation for any help!

  Sal

  John Fishback replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Fishback

  June 6, 2010 at 7:48 pm

  What are your sequence settings? Sounds like the pixel aspect ration may be set incorrectly.

  John

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