720 Anamorphic or 853?

[Richard Lowe]

Thanks, everyone!

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Neil Sadwelkar] “In your 720×480 Anamorphic 29.97 timeline, simply place your 640×360 clip and scale it to fit the frame. Don’t use distort. “

That is absolutely impossible in FCP. You cannot scale the x&y independently. You will notice that FCP has ‘used the distort’ for you.

Jeremy

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Although probably not relevant to the current thread, you can indeed scale x and y independently. You need top keep shift pressed while dragging the scale handles.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Although probably not relevant to the current thread, you can indeed scale x and y independently. You need top keep shift pressed while dragging the scale handles.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Neil Sadwelkar] “Although probably not relevant to the current thread, you can indeed scale x and y independently. You need top keep shift pressed while dragging the scale handles. “

And if you notice when you look at the distort property in the motion tab, your footage is now ‘distorted’. This is how FCP works. You can’t put a square pixel image in a non square pixel raster and expect no distortion.

If you want no distortion, then the square 16×9 image will be letter-boxed.

Jeremy

[Rafael Amador]

Both pictures are 16×9, there is no necessary any distort.
Upscale.
Forgetting about pixels and thinking in terms of geometry makes things easier.
Rafael

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