• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  1440×1080 = 4:3?

  Posted by Jeshua Horca on July 21, 2011 at 6:55 pm

  So, I’ve got some footage that needs editing. It needs to be in the following format:

  “Standard Definition 4×3”

  Now, I’ve done some google-ing and some people say that 1440×1080 is indeed 4:3 but it sure doesn’t look like that to me. I tried putting my FCE’s Sequence Preset to 1920×1080 and then my footage then becomes “squished” and looks more like the correct aspect ratio. So I’m a little confused.

  Is 1440×1080 an acceptable 4:3 aspect ratio?

  Shane Ross replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  July 21, 2011 at 7:10 pm

  1440×1080 is anamorphic HD. It is 4:3, but stretches out to 16:9 in editing applications. It is called THIN RASTER, as opposed to FULL RASTER that is 1920×1080.

  But it isn’t SD. SD is 720×486. DV is 720×480.

  Shane

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  Jeshua Horca

  July 21, 2011 at 7:32 pm

  Thanks, Shane.

  I can’t find an SD preset in FCE. There is a “DV NTSC 48 khz” but I think that is 720×480. Is there any way to get SD in FCE?
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  Shane Ross

  July 21, 2011 at 7:37 pm

  FInal Cut Express works with DV and HDV…and a couple tapeless formats. The only SD format it works with is DV.

  Shane

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

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