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Compressor stretching text in 16×9 project
I’m working on an HD project, the particular sequence set at AJA 1080i DVCPro, 1280×1080. In the timeline all the chyrons and timecode look great. Once I export into Compressor, (I’ve tried many different compressors, my one goal being that the project is ultimately 320×180,) all the texts are stretched.
Unfortunately it seems no matter what I try and do, the compressed version shows the timecode and texts pulled vertically slightly, (possibly anamorphic?). Is this something within my sequence settings or is it a Compressor issue? Any help or guidance with this would be great! Thanks!
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6 Replies
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Where did you created your text?
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
I’ve had the same problem on every DVCPROHD 720p project I’ve worked on for quite a while, using the FCP Text tool. I was beginning to think it was just me! Interestingly, it doesn’t seem to do this if I compress to MPEG-2 for DVD, but Sorenson, H.264, etc, no matter what the dimensions, yes. It also does this to other generators, like shapes.
The only reliable workaround that I know of seems to be to export a reference movie from FCP and bring that into compressor. Usually, this is fine, but sometimes it’s a less than ideal workflow.
– David
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I’ve seen this problem before on my systems, but I never really use the FCP title tool for final products. We always use photoshop, motion, or after effects for our final titles.
-Russ
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It’s all just FCP text.
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Interesting. Thanks for that! I actually ended up doing the QT Ref work around and everything came out just fine!
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Yeah this bug shouldn’t be, but once you know if you reduce the ASPECT by about 10% on all the text clips it compensates and the result is the same as it would have been. Useful if the sequences are testers, otherwise use another program for text.
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