• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  16×9 into 4×3 for On-Air broadcast copy

  Posted by Tom Step on March 23, 2007 at 5:38 pm

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  Subject: Re: FCP not flagging 16:9 capture as anamorphic (automatic 4:3 distort)

  I shot 16×9 DV50 on Panny SDX900. Captured into FCP with anamorphic flag set to on. Edited on 16×9 sequence, then nested that in a 4×3 and rendered it. Looks correct on the Apple display in FCP Canvas but when I make a .dv file (QTConversion with 4×3 preserve aspect with letterbox settings) for server playout, the image is “squat”. Playing back the same file via QTPlayer looks “squat” also. Properties for the .dv are 640×480 pixels native (despite 720×480 standard)…When I apply a percent increase of 100% by 112% the letterbox image seems correct but of course the dv dimensions do not. Seems the letterbox gets shrunk to about 90% vertically of what it should be…

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  So here’s what I did: in the sequence settings for the 4×3 timeline I changed the pixel aspect from NTSC CCIR 601 / DV (720×480)to square pixels. The canvas displays the content correctly, though the picture on my NTSC monitor looks “skinny” (??). Then I nested the original 16×9 sequence into that, and exported using QTConversion to a DV Stream with 4×3 “preserve aspect with letterbox” settings… AND VOILA !!! the resulting .dv file plays the image correcly offf the server and in the QTPlayer.

  So the question then is: is this the proper way to construct a “For Air” copy from anamorphic material constrained to 4×3 within FCP? Any easier ways

  Thanks,
  Tom

  Tom Step replied 19 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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