• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capturing DVCPRO50 in FCP.

  Posted by Dave Po on November 9, 2010 at 10:16 pm

  Hey! So I was wondering… I have video with black bars on the sides of my video, was this caused by capturing at 720×480?

  So, I have been shooting on DVCPRO50 on a Panasonic SDX-900 broadcast camera. I believe this shoots 720×486, is that correct? For some reason I always thought it shot 486 lines but the top 3 and bottom 3 lines where black and capturing at 720×480 would just crop the top and bottom 3 lines. Is this so or is it a full 486 lines of chroma/luminance color video?

  So the video has been getting captured at 720×480. Is FCP (version 5.1.4) shrinking the 486 video down proportionately to fit 480? This would be multiplying it by ~98.8%. This would explain the a 4 pixel of black (plus 1 or 2 feathered pixels) on each side.

  Is my logic correct here?

  Am I doing a terrible injustice to my DVCPRO50 footage by capturing it at 720×480?

  Dave Po replied 15 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  Dave Po

  November 9, 2010 at 10:49 pm

  Capturing with a Panasonic AJ-SD93 deck via Firewire and FCP 5.1.4
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  Dave Po

  November 9, 2010 at 11:21 pm

  If I make an image file in photoshop that is 720×486 and drop it into a 720×480 FCP timeline and resize it to 98.8% it looks exactly the same. Why? And why wouldn’t DVCPRO50 be a full 720 wide? Whatever its got going on just looks bad 🙁

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