Anamorphic Flag??

[Gary Adcock]

[Jonathan White] “Brought some digibeta in via fcp 7 as prores, not sure if I can flag it as anamorphic for insertion (and upscaling) into a HD sequence?”

I do not understand.

Anamorphic traditionally refers to lenses that squeeze a wider than screen image onto 4:3 area?

anamorphicly captured materials are not “automatically flagged” in any NLE that I know of.

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[Jonathan White]

Maybe I’m using the wrong terminology, basically it’s digibeta 16:9 anamorphic footage but it’s showing as 4:3 in my HD sequence, in fcp 7 I would tick it’s flag to expand it but I don’t know if that’s possible in FCP X?? Hope that makes sense.
j.

Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland

[Tapio Haaja]

Yes it’s possible first time in 10.0.6. Select your clip, go to inspector, choose settings. Anamorphic override is not displayed by default so you’ve to edit which metadata fields get displayed and add Anamorphic override there manually. After that you can change aspect ratio of your SD clips.

Best
Tapio Haaja

Technical Producer / Promotions / MTV MEDIA (Finland)

[Jonathan White]

That’s great thanks, I had a feeling it was there in 10.0.6…
j.

Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland

[Bret Williams]

Another option is to highlight the clips in the event and in the video inspector change the spatial interpolation to “fill.” (note Apple still hasn’t fixed the bug for us that put the events on it’s own screen – when events are on their own screen, using the inspector to make changes across multiple clips is generally impossible. You have to put the events back on the main screen temporarily)

In FCP 1-7 you could highlight the anamorphic field in the bin and check it. If it was flagged as anamorphic then it got expanded to 16:9. When you render out of legacy from a 16:9 SD sequence to a QT, QT player knows that it should be displayed as 854×480. not 720×480. Ditto with DVDSP and compressor. They know that a clip is flagged anamorphic.

Anyway, looks like Jonathan had the answer below. I’m guessing there’s no flag on DigiBeta anamorphic camera footage like there is on a QT file. I’m not sure DV even had a flag and it was a direct import. When capturing in FCP 7 you’d add that data by using the correct capture preset, but it didn’t add anything to the captured QT. It only added it to bin data which was not embedded in the clip. The only time I’ve see a QT know was after it had been exported from an app that adds some metadata flag that is read by QT player or DVDSP or Compressor, etc.