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exporting dimensions change
This is the situation:
I have anamorphic footage (PAL 720 x 576), so it looks widescreen in my viewer / timeline / sequence.
When i export the footage using quicktime conversion it ends up as normal 720 x 576 dimensions (squished) and is no longer widescreen.
I tried altering the size in the export settings, but then i get a widescreen video, with black on either side and the squished looking 720 x 576 video in the middle.
What am i doing wrong?
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If you click on Options – Size, you wil see an option to check a box that says, “Preserve Aspect Ratio using” and there is a drop down menu to its right with three options:
Letterbox
Crop
Fit Within DimensionsCheck the box and try exporting using each of the three options. After doing that you’ll know what each of those options actually does and you find the one that works the way you wish.
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I played around (a lot) and figured out i had to manually input the aspect ration to keep 16:9 dimensions. So the size settings ended being: 720 x 405 and it worked a treat.
Thanks for the feedback,
dan
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720 x 576 is correct. That’s PAL SD anamorphic and it is meant to look squished.
However, if you want it to look unsquished 16:9 on a computer monitor then the magic numbers are 1024 x 576.
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