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force aspect ratio 16:9 for dvc prohd 720p/60 24p mode
hi all,
wanted to say, i really appreciate the forum. i’ve been reading.
so, hopefully someone can help. been working on this forever. i have a 20 gb final cut file. it was shot dvc prohd 720p/60 w/ the 24p setting on the hvx 200.
it’s supposed to be viewed widescreen & a friend compressed it using sorenson 16:9 & the files are 5 & 3.1 gb. not sure on all his settings. i play it in quicktime & it looks letterbox & it says 1280×720. i put it in idvd or dvd sp & it goes squished. i need to make a dvd that i can play on a comp or tv (widescreen or reg) & i want it to look letterbox. don’t care if the image has to get smaller. is there anyway to force that? i’m new to all this. i’ve tried to compress it a million times, it’s fine in quicktime, but get the same result when going to make a dvd.
any suggestions? : (
thanks,
s
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4 Replies
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with the files in fcp, right click on the clip and goto the settings, check the “anamorphic” box, send it out to compressor for dvd encode.
That should make a letterboxed dvd.
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thanks so much for your response. i did that & it pillarboxes it. i did a control click on the sequence & did that from fcp in compressor. i have tried fps at 23 & 29 & i have done dvd fastest encode 16:9. i think the anamorphic is not such a good idea, bc it will squish & crop, right?
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Firstly, I think you were on the right track originally sort of. If done correctly, the squished video should play back filling a widescreen tv, or the dvd player will letterbox it for 4:3 TVs (it’s a setting in the dvd player menu that you set when you first set up your dvd player). This method will give you the best quality on widescreen TVs which are ever more common now.
Yesterday I needed to make a mini dv copy of a DVCproHD 23.98fps project. We wanted letter-boxing without squishing. Here’s what I think (if I remember correctly) we did:
Duplicate the DVCproHD timeline. Change the settings to DVntsc pixel dimensions and such. I can’t remember if I checked 16:9 or not, sorry. Probably not.
For each clip, go into motion tab and change the size to 75% and set distort->aspect ratio to -50. I believe this will fill the frame with correctly proportioned letter box framing. To avoid having to do this for each clip separately, copy the settings and choose “paste attributes” to paste them into the remaining clips. When done, check all titles and other FCP generated clips because they may be shaped differently the the DVCproHD clips. The simplist way might be to export the the project into a DVCproHD quicktime, and then just open that into a dv timeline at 23.98 fps.
Good luck,
-bruce
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wow. thank you very much. i will try this after work tomorrow nt. i’ll let you know what happens. i thought it might be something convoluted like that. when i exported it once w/ 23 it halved the video, so the sound was 2x as long. haha. i’ll give this a shot.
s
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