Bringing Anamorphic tag through to QT Player

[David Hartnett]

Unfortunately, quicktime never seems to recognize anamorphic movies as anamorphic. There was a different way to fix this in previous versions, but with QT 7.6 you need to go to window>show movie properties (cmd J) Then choose Video Track>Visual Settings. From there you can change the scaled size to correct for an anamorphic clip. For PAL, this means unchecking “Preserve Aspect Ratio” and changing 720 to 1024, so your dimensions are 1024×576.

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[Will Macneil]

Thanks, David.

W

Will MacNeil
Film Editor
London

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Will,
The solution that David suggest is OK for watching your movie in QT, but be very careful if you try to bring your movie to FC.
FC will interpret it as 1024×576 Square Pixels. Will make you render if you lie it in a PAL SD sequence.
I think that the problem is not QT, but the Apple codecs.
Before I used to have a BlackMagic. The DV Anamorphic I used to capture by FW shows up as BM DV.
It display perfectly Anamorphic as is recognized by FC as such. With the Apple Dv, no way.
rafael

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[Will Macneil]

Thanks, this was with ProRes (obviously an Apple codec.)

W

Will MacNeil
Film Editor
London