How to insert img file in native resolution without stretching

[David Battistella]

My guess is that the stretch is only happening in the viewer window. If you drag the file into the timeline it should fit in the correct aspect ratio for the sequence you have selected.

You can also select the clip in the timeline and right click to select REMOVE ATTRIBUTES and remove the ones the may have been selected automatically.

Hope this helps.

David

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[Ohki Komoto]

Thank you David for the feedback.

Well, that is what I usually do, I just drag straight into the timeline and it is stretched. In the viewer, or whatever, when i double click on it in the imported files folder, it looks fine. I tried the remove attributes option before my other post, but did not see anything pertaining to the way it was stretched. nothing was highlighted.

Guess I’ll try some other measurements in Power point to export.

Ohki

[David Battistella]

Yes,

Double check to see how the files open in Photoshop. You might be applying the stretch on export.

David

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[Ohki Komoto]

No, I’m exporting as 4:3 in powerpoint.

I double checked in photoshop with the ppt slide, and the bigger background and it’s fine before FCP. I just need to tell FCP not to stretch my image however that is done. It is probably something very simple to do, but sometimes that isn’t intuitive to a new user.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Ohki,
Make sure that FC is interpreting properly the kind of pixels of the PPP.
You have exported 4×3 and FC may be reading as Square.
rafael

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[Ohki Komoto]

Rafael, i’m not quite sure how to tell fcp to interpret individual assets differently in that aspect.

The ppt exports the 4:3 slide images as 960×720 which FCP will always automatically bump up to stretch to fit the 1280×720, if you are using the DVCPRO HD 720p60fps. I tried testing a 961×721 resolution of the same image edited in PS, and it comes in natively. I knew that footage would get stretched in that format, since it is the way that it packs that data, but guess it effects any stills of the 960×720 reso as well. So, just export the settings of the slides tweaked ever so slightly is the solution i’m going to go with for now, unless someone can suggest a cleaner solution. Which would help, since the graphs/etc on the slides are looking a little fuzzy in this process.

Thanks for replying guys.
Sincerely

Ohki

[Dennis Leppell]

Go to user preferences—->editing tab.

on the lower right corner of the window is a check box next to “Always scale clips to sequence size”. Uncheck this. Test and report back

[Ohki Komoto]

Dennis

I tried it on an existing sequence and a new one. It sounded promising but it still manages to stretch my image :/

Thanks
Ohki

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Ohki,
960×720 is perfectly 4×3 when built with Square pixels.
Look in the Browser, pixels aspect column, and make sure that the Pixels are Square.
Rafael

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[Rafael Amador]

No Ohki.

You don’t have to change nothing in your sequence setting.

What you have to look for is in the Browser window.

Double click the PPP in the Browser and scroll until the “Pixels Aspect” column.
Make sure that is SQUARED.

If you have exported the PPP 960×720, 4×3, necessarily the pixels must be Square.
FC may be interpreting the pixels as a different kind, so when you drag the clip to the sequence they get distorted.

rafael

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