Fitting the image to frame

[Peter Chamberlain]

Have a look at your input scaling settings, top RHS of the conform page, project tab. I would start there first.
Peter

[Peter Brewer]

Hi Peter

Thanks for the reply. I’ve tried all those. It changes the way the image is displayed but it won’t get it looking correct. It works in Apple Color.

Peter Brewer
http://www.indimax.com.au

[Rohit Gupta]

Hi Peter,

What is the source resolution of the clips?

Is the Pixel Aspect Ratio of the clips 1:1? Try setting it to Cinemascope in the Media Pool right-click menu, and see if that helps.

If you still don’t have any luck, please send an example image/clip to our support at davincihelp (at) blackmagic-design.com, and we’ll figure it out. Please also send the XML, and exported logs using the CaptureLogs.app at /Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/

Regards,
Rohit

[Peter Brewer]

Cinemascope makes it worse. Went back to FCP and noticed that the problem footage is 1440×1080. It is conformed in FCP and sends to Apple Color fine. Is that something that Davinci can’t do? Does all the footage need to be the same pixel aspect to display correctly?

Peter Brewer
http://www.indimax.com.au

[Danny Scotting]

Try changing the pixel aspect ratio of that one clip in the browse page once your media is in the media pool. 35mm HD anamorphic might work? You may lose top and bottom of image though.

Although it sounds like setting the format converter for that clip to 1920×1080 might pull your image in to the right shape.

Danny Scotting – Commercial Colourist
EFILM Sydney
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[Jake Blackstone]

I’m not going to pretend, that I know what I’m talking about here, but 1440×1080 means, that it was acquired by either Sony camera or some other kind of Japanese prosumer and consumer camera. The end result the QT player is aware, that something like HDV or XDCAM, the pixels are non squire and QT and so is Color does the conversion on the fly, presenting correct 16×9 1920×1080 image. You need to select non squire pixels and you should be good to go.

[Peter Brewer]

Yes the footage was from a Sony HDV. The footage has been converted to prores 444. Some of the footage has gone through shake and has been output at the 1920×817 Res. Resolve does randomly crash when I’m changing rooms (not sure yet if thats what they’re called in Resolve).

Peter Brewer
http://www.indimax.com.au

[Peter Chamberlain]

Sound strange. You didn’t mention the hardware config which may point to the reliability issue.
How did you decide to get to 1920×817 from the 1440×1080 source?
Please send a short example image/clip of the original and converted to our support at davincihelp (at) blackmagic-design.com, and we’ll figure it out.
Please exported the Resolve logs using the CaptureLogs.app at /Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/
Also, open your system profiler and use File/Save As to make a XML. The support guys can use that too.
Peter

[Peter Brewer]

I’ll get the files together and send them through. Thanks for the help 🙂

Peter Brewer
http://www.indimax.com.au

[Fehraz Lalil]

Hey Peter, Was this problem resolved? I’m experiencing a similar problem where my 1920×1080 files are being interpreted by Resolve at 1440×1080. Any suggestions?