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720X480 Blackmagic Photo-Jpeg video from a Analog beta deck. Is this possible to capture and edit with?
Hello. I have a project shot on analog beta and need to bring it into FCP via a blackmagic decklink extreme video card at 720X480 photo-jpeg instead of the normal 720X486 photo-jpeg. I went to my capture presets and made a custom preset that all I did was change the aspect ratio to NTSC DV(3:2) for my 720X480 frame size. Everything else stayed the same. I made a special sequence to match this new setting as well.
However once I took in the footage it didn’t crop out the 6 additional lines but instead squeezed them and made my captured footage appeared squished and pixelated. Is there any way to do this photo-jpeg 720X480 workflow and if so can yo uplease advise the steps. Thanks in advance.
Lee
G5 Mac OS X
Dual 2.0 GHz
FCP 4.5 HD
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FCP 5.02 Studio
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I appreciate the help.
G5 Mac OS X
Dual 2.0 GHz
FCP 4.5 HD
XServe Raid 1 TerabyteG5 Mac OS X
Dual 2.3 GHz
FCP 5.02 Studio
G-Tech G Raid 500 GBs
2 – Lacie Drives 200 GBs -
Lee
format conversion, like from 720 x 486 to 720 x 540 or wahtever, needs to be done in fcp as a deliberate kind of thing, or you will simply get a squeezed image. (in most cases)
the best thing to do is to work at 720 x 486 until you are ready to output, then make a 720 x 480 timeline and cut your sequence into that. Then scale your source sequence accordingly. FCP may autonaltically put a distort on your sequence to get it to fit, just shut it off
If you need to be more specific with your scaling such that you want to crop the top on some shots, but the bottom on others, you cna make edits at those points (dividing your source sequence into “chunks”) then do the appropriate scaling.
does this help?
bee eph
Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.
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