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Capturing uncompressed 10bit in 16:9 or 4:3
Hello
I’m having a little bit of trouble understanding the way anamorphic footage is captured in FCP when working with Uncompressed-10bit footage.
Basically I’m trying to setup my FCP to capture from a DVCPRO50 deck, via SDI. I figured my problems out, and the footage is playing through no problem.
However what bothers me is the anamorphic flagging of the footage. I’m just trying to understand it it makes any difference to capture the footage as anamorphic 16/9, and actually flagging it as anamorphic 16/9 once it has been captured in the item properties window.
I can’t seem to see a huge difference in quality between the two operations…Thanks
Alex -
3 Replies
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There is no difference if you do it before or after capture. It doesn’t affect the media whatsoever. “Flagging it” as anamorphic doesn’t mean much anyway. It’s a convienience. All it does is apply settings to the motion tab (Distort) when you drag it into a timeline. You can apply those settings manually and it’s no different than having checked the anamorphic box.
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So why would you want to capture anamorphic? Any reason aside from the convenience of not having to check the anamorphic box for each clip before viewing it in the viewer or sequence?
Thanks
Alex -
There is no other reason except maybe the AR of the preview window during capture.
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