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16:9 help!!! …please
I’ve read the manual and posts, but am missing something obvious!
I have CG quicktimes and DV footage both 16:9. I set up a 16:9 anamorphic PAL project, and captured the footage then copied from disc the CG stuff.
Looks OK in FCP.
Export to Quicktime and the movie has become 4:3 tall skinny people?!?
Am I missing a checkbox?
I will need to then put this through Live Type and DVDpro do I need to watch out for anything else?
Many thanks
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Export to QT using the same DV PAL Anamorphic preset and your movie will retain the 16:9 aspect ratio. When you bring the resulting .m2v encoded file into your DVD authoring program make sure the video track is set for 16:9 widescreen. You can do this in the Inspector properties tab in the lower right window in DVDSP if you first highlight the video track.
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Thanks Don
But…
When I export the quicktime it becomes 4:3?!?
I have tried quicktime and quicktime compressor, making sure I’m using the DVpal anamorphic codec, ticked and unticked everything I can!
Yes the sequence is 16:9, I have ticked anamorphic in the browser and the CG clip looks fine on the timeline with the canvas image showing 16:9. Opening distort in the motion tab shows it set to zero as I would expect.
The quicktime info reads 720×576 – is this right? Should anamorphic be wider?
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PAL widescreen is 16:9 with fat pixels, so your file frame size info sounds good; don’t know why QT player isn’t recognising any widescreen flag and displaying as intended.
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Hi Mike
The graphics were produced on a PC using 3DMax and the movie played as 16:9 on there.
You mention a “flag”. How is this encoded and could it somehow have been removed?
When I export the clip it appears in the export preview window as 19:9.
Could this be a Quicktime 7 issue? I cannot find any aspect ratio opions in Quicktime.
Cheers
David -
I feel David’s pain… I, too, have seen this issue and delt with it by having to set the screen size in Quicktime to that of a widescreen. In NTSC, I have to export my video using the screen size of 720×407 in order to get 16×9.
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Wayne Carey
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I have also had this problem. When you change the anomorphic button it dosnt change the actual number of pixels- it just “streches” them. In order to get a QT to display properly export out a new QT video out of QTpro with the desired PAL 720×576 anomorphic pref in the size option box. I usually am compressing for dvd so i just set the 16×9 compression setting and it displays correctly on dvd.
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Ok… I understnad what you’re saying BUT what about Compressor. Every time I export my video to compressor that is 16×9, it comes out at 4×3 and I can’t change settings. I have to duplicate the settings in my Custom folder and change it there but the results are not very good at all.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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By applying a 16×9 preset in compressor to the video plants a flag that studio pro see’s when it’s mpeg is imported. If for some reeason it still squishes it the display setting for the video and be changed in the inspector by selecting the clip instance. Hope that helps.
JP
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