Exporting to Quicktime

[Mil Bogo]

Hi,
I tried again and I am still not getting good results. Even though my DV footage is 16:9 – Quicktime is playing in 4:3.

anyone?

[Mary Waitrovich]

see this previous thread where I asked about the same problem:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/884390#884409

I’m not happy with this solution and can’t believe FCP editors have to do this, but it does work.

Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Mil Bogo]

Quote from other thread:

The Quicktime Player is notorious for ignoring the pixel aspect ratio and boldly assuming that the video has a PAR of 1.0. The only fix that I know of is to actually render with a PAR of 1.0 and adjust your resolution accordingly.

Can you please explain how to do this? What is meant by adjust your resolution accordingly – I am a bit green and want to make sure i get it right.

cheers.

[Mary Waitrovich]

Render your video as a NTSC DV Widescreen avi file. Put that in a new blank project with the project properties set to NTSC DV (not widescreen). What you should see in the preview window is your widescreen video with black bars at top and bottom. Render as a .mov. The mov file will have them too – it will look like letterboxing – but at least your video won’t be squeezed or stretched.

[Mil Bogo]

Hi Mary,
I found this on another post:

Here’s an answer from Rob Lohman at a different location:

Greg: the project settings should be widescreen 16:9 in PAL or
NTSC. Don’t change that!

When exporting QuickTime go to custom and then video tab.
Make sure frame size is set to custom frame size and set the
vertical to normal (which will be 480 pixels for NTSC or 576 for
PAL) or a lower value (which you usually want if you want to
put it up on the web!), usually 50%.

Then use then multiply the horizontal resolution (720 for both
PAL & NTSC) with the pixel aspect ratio number in the project
settings (which is 1.2121 for NTSC and 1.4568 for PAL 16:9).

This should be either 872 (NTSC) or 1048 (PAL). If you are using
a lower resolution take the same percentage out of the horizontal
resolution as well (usually again 50%).

Make sure the pixel aspect ratio on this screen is set to 1.0

This should get you a widescreen movie.

What do you think of this solution”
Kind regards,
Mil

[Mary Waitrovich]

I think I’ll give it a try when I have a chance. It seems like I tried everything in the custom settings to no avail. I hope this works!

[Mary Waitrovich]

I tried it. It works. Thanks to your informant.