• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Canon XL2 and FCP

  Posted by Ty Ford on June 15, 2006 at 11:34 am

  Hi,

  I’ve been editing on FCP for a short time; sometimes in 16:9 material, sometimes 4:3. My final renders sometimes comeout squished vertically. I’ve been resizing them in Quicktime pro, but would like to get a handle on what’s going on.

  Someone mentioned that the XL2 is actually different because of the way it shoots 16:9, (number of pixels). Someone else mentioned it has to to with the import, session and output setting, but I can’t get a solid grip on what to do.

  Any suggestions? Any suggested reading?

  Thanks,

  Ty Ford

  Richard Harrington replied 19 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Richard Harrington

  July 9, 2006 at 3:03 pm

  16:9 material on the XL2 is still 720X480….

  The 16:9 process is handled by on-screen simulation or the hardware player.

  If compressing to MPEG 2 for DVD… choose Widescreen preset so widescreen flag is applies and player shows correctly.

  If going to the web.. you need to change your output size

  720 X 1.2 (the widescreen Pixel Aspect Ratio is 860_

  So

  860 X 480
  430 X 240

  etc

  This is covered in article on my sites…

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop CS for Nonlinear Editors, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork

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