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Can anyone explain the difference between DV-NTSC and DV- NTSC ANAMORPHIC?
Both are Easy Setups in FCP, but both handle my raw DV material exactly the same.
Someone sent me RAW DV files and claimed they were anamorphic….they arrived as 16×9. Shouldn’t they be 4X3 with a letterboxed image?
I know this is Video 101, but this kinda baffles me.
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Anamorphic DV NTSC has a pixel aspect ratio of approximately 1.2. 720×480. When viewed as standard DV it looks squished.
Letterbox has pixels on the top and bottom filled with black.
Anamorphic is a check box in a browser problem. It effects how FCP displays the footage.
If anamorphic is checked, and the image doesn’t look distorted when you play it in FCP, the footage IS anamorphic.
If you want the footage to be letter-boxed, create a non-anamorphic DV NTSC sequence, and then add your anamorphic footage
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And it makes sense..
Although, I just tried it now (adding the bars to the top and bottom) and it doesn’t work.
I chose the DV-NTSC EZ setup, created a new sequence and dragged in the anamorphic DV footage. I toggled the anamorphic checjbox in the browser on both the sequence and the file and neither added black bars. It just stretched the image…
Am I making sense? Am I missing something?
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[Proper Modulation] “It just stretched the image…”
It actually changes the distort property in the motion tab on all of the clips. You can change it back if you need to.
-Russ
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Ok..I don’t want to get sidetracked with semantics though….
Thanks for the tip..
Tom, I’m still curious in a response if you have the time.
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Hey,
What Russell said is true, and is the key to a good trouble shooting technique for aspect ratio issues.
It is difficult to diagnose exactly what is happening on your end without seeing the images
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