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1080i footage not exporting right…
Hello to all…
I am working with FCP 5.4 still. I am starting a new video driven website and I am planning on using Adobe flash and Adobe Encoder to compress for the video’s. Here’s my situation:
Been shooting with the Canon XL2 at 30p to start with. I have compressed the video in many different ways but not getting a decent result that I would see with let’s say tut’s on the cow or http://www.hulu.com and several other site’s. So what I don’t know is, will the quality be better if I shot in HDV? I have a Sony HDR-FX1. I would be more willing to use the HDV but whenever I export it from FCP it never looks right. It imports fine into FCP but when I finish and try to export it out it looks all squished, and yes I thought it was exporting in 720×486, so I changed settings but then it still did the same thing. I shot in widescreen on the camera, imported fine, but exported all pushed together again. Tried many of the different setting’s from the drop down menu but it never come out right. Sometimes it exports with black lines showing how it was compressed into a SD size setting. Also I sometimes pull the footage into AE and it shows the interlace. Is there anyone who can guide me on this so I don’t feel so super stupid. I thought I knew FCP but it has definitely got the best of me.Thanks
Chuck Obie -
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If you are scaling 1920 x 1080 down then you need to keep that 16:9 proportion for your web vid. So if you get your calculator out and divide 1080 by 486 you get 2.22. Divide 1920 by 2.22 and you get 864.86. So if you want 486 vertical, then you need 864.86 horizontal to maintain the aspect ratio.
I would recommend looking for whole numbers however, so try a simple divide by 2. This gives 960 x 540, or divide by 2.5 and you get 768 x 432. Again whole numbers, similar size to your attempted target but correct ratio.
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I knew I should have paid attention in math class. Teach said I would need those math skills one day!
Thanks for the response.Chuck
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[Chuck Obernesser] “I knew I should have paid attention in math class”
If it is any consolation, I hated maths lessons. I do enjoy correct aspect ratios so I put up with it.
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