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Maintaining the aspect ratio of 8mm film when transcoding to ProRes 442 HQ with MPEG Streamclip
Hi there,
forgive me if I’m making an obvious mistake, but Im trying to drop some footage shot on an old 8mm camcorder into a final cut timeline to sit alongside footage shot on a 5D.
I don’t care about the quality of the footage, I deliberately used a camcorder to get that specific look.
Now, I believe that in order to edit it in Final Cut Pro, I need to transcode it (I’m using MPEG Streamclip) into the same format as the rest of the footage (Apple ProRes HQ 1920 x 1080), but in doing so, I obviously lose the aspect ratio of the original footage and it comes out stretched.
Is there a way to instruct Streamclip to maintain the original squarer shape of the footage and simply add borders at each side?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
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2 Replies
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Try capturing it as SD ProRes instead. Then just place it in the timeline to upconvert it… it should maintain the 4:3 aspect ratio.
Jerry
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I guess that your 8mm stuff is NTSC 4×3.
If you wan’t to edit that on a 1920×1080 SQ Pixels sequence, you need to resize it to 1440×1080 SQ Pixels. That’s 4×3.
rafael
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