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  • Export size changes

    Posted by David Perry on June 17, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Hi,
    I am exporting a letterboxed DV25 project. In the timeline it looks fine. But on export it stretches. My sequence settings are
    Frame size 720×480 NTSC DV 3:2
    Pixel NTSC-CCIR 01 DV NON Anamorphic
    Field Lower
    Compressor DV.DVCPRO NTSC

    THe files are exactly the same. If I change the timeline to 4:3 it causes a huge render but then it squeezes it.

    Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
    On Capturing from a HVX-200 in DV mode the files look a bit stretched in quicktime but OK in the timeline.

    Thanks in advance.
    David PErry

    David Perry
    Carmen Productions

    Eric Johnson replied 17 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Jerry Hofmann

    June 17, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    How are you judging the export? In QuickTime? What are you exporting as? DV? or?

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  • David Perry

    June 17, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    I am exporting a quicktime file both reference and self contained. In the export process it stretches. It is not as big a difference as going from 4:3 to 16×9 but it is very prominent. Then I import it into compressor and I was hoping to use a pillar effect to bring it into perspective, but I can’t find one.

    David Perry
    Carmen Productions

  • Eric Johnson

    June 18, 2008 at 12:26 am

    Have you brought the export into FCP? If so does it look fine there? DV isn’t a square pixel format, which will cause this sort of distortion. QT does not always account for non-square pixel formats. So, the file maybe right, it’s just that the viewing environment is not.

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