exporting still from FCP

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Julia Barreto] “I refuse to believe that everytime I need a still from a frame a I have to correct it in photoshop. It

[Jeff Carpenter]

There’s a thread lower down the page on this. The newest version (6.0.2) DOES correct on export now.

Unfortunately, they didn’t make it an option. They just changed the way it works.

So whereas before it made half the people unhappy (such as yourself), now they’re just making the other half of the people unhappy. Perhaps they’ll eventually add an option to do it either way you want.

At any rate, once you upgrade to 6.0.2 you should be all set.

[Brian Pitt]

I have found it much easier to just turn off overlays and safe areas in your canvas window and do a selected screen capture using the Shift+Apple+4 command. That way, you don’t have to deal with pixel aspect ratios. They are converted to square pixels.

If you are working with interlaced footage, just throw on a deinterlace filter before doing the screen capture or you can do the same in photoshop.

Brian

[Rafael Amador]

[Jeff Carpenter] “e newest version (6.0.2) DOES correct on export now”
Not exactly Jeff. FC6 has complicated things.
Before when you export a 16×9 still you get a still with the original pixels. 720×576 in PAL.
Now you get a still with 1024×576. FC (and QT, y test it) are converting the pixels from Annanorphic to Square.
I don’t want so. I want to keep the original pixels. The only solution I found so far is to uncheck “Annamorphic” before exporting. You get your original 720×576 pixels to work with them in PSH. There you can change the preview aspect ratio and watch it Annamorphic.
Rafael

PPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
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[Jeremy Garchow]

I wish FCP would just keep everything at it’s native size and let us resize if we want to. There’s no reason for it to try and be so smart. It only messes up people more.

[David Mcgiffert]

Yup Brian,

That’s what I have wound up doing, and for most purposed
it works great.

David

[Rafael Amador]

Brian I think that is a good idea when you want to send something fast to PHS. However if you want to go back to FC you are resampling twice your still.
Rafael

PPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
JVC DTV-17″/FCS2/AE CS3/COMBUSTION/SHAKE