• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor: mp4 to dvcprohd

  Posted by Christopher Pavsek on February 5, 2007 at 11:29 pm

  I have some clips:
  qt, mp4, 620×480, 24 fps.

  I need to use them in a
  sequence in FCP:

  dvcprohd 720p24 or perhaps 1080i60. Not sure yet.

  In any case, since FCP won’t take mp4 and for other reasons, I
  thought it best to convert them in compressor to dvcprohd. Now how do
  I set this up to get the right frame size? I want them to appear pillar boxed
  in the canvas window–that is, to maintain their original 1:1.33 aspect ratio.
  (I don’t know why, but for some reason aspect ratio and pixel aspect ratio
  math make my head swim I got an A+ in calculus in college, too.)

  If I make them with square pixels at 150 percent size, I get a
  horizontally squished image and have to use “distort” in the motion
  tab.

  If I make them with dvcprohd aspect ratio pixels, i get a vertically
  squashed image andhave to use “distort” in the motion tab.

  PLUS: half the time compressor seems to change the settings on me:
  now it makes it with square pixels when i tell it to, now it won’t.

  Christopher Pavsek replied 19 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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