mixing 1440 with 1920

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

mixing 1440 with 1920

Posted by Rob Gutermuth on June 29, 2015 at 1:54 pm

Hi All,

So I have a few multi cam shoots where 2 of the cameras are HD 1920x1080i and 2 are HDV 1440x1080i

what is the best way to go, so that they are all the same in the timeline?

Option 1:

choose a 1920×1080 sequence which is native to 2 cameras, but the other 2 would have to be zoomed to like 137 percent or something to conform

Option 2:

Choose a 1440×1080 sequence, native to the HDV frame size, and then the aspect settings for the 1920 footage has to change to allow them to conform….

I’m using option 2 right now, since that seems to look better than option 1, but is there a good option 3?

Thanks all

Rob Gutermuth
Media Creations

Daryl K davis replied 10 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
4 Replies

Mark Suszko
June 29, 2015 at 4:02 pm

Yes, buy cameras that match next time:-) But your choice of option 2 is what most people do.
Rob Gutermuth
June 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm

Buy cameras that match…. lol. Yeah, that would be the best solution… but my money tree isn’t giving me anything lately 🙂

I just read on here that 1440x1080i HDV is really 1920 anyways… True or not… some say yes, some say no… so, which is it?

The seq didn’t have to re-render when I used Prores as the codec for the sequence (native clips, etc) – but the export takes 10x longer, and the file size is of course a lot bigger… and also it choose Square for the pixels…. HDV didn’t use that… does that matter?

I guess my question is…

would it be better to use the native 1440x1080i 60 HDV settings for the sequence, which matches perfectly with the main 2 cameras, and then force render the other 2, to I guess down convert from prores 1920x1080i 60

or, just have the HDV footage in a prores sequence… what should all the setting be then, if I do that?

not that it matters, but all cameras are set to NDF. My end result will be DVD mostly.

Thanks

Rob Gutermuth
Media Creations
Michael Gissing
June 30, 2015 at 4:56 am

My advice is to chose option one. 1920 x 1080 is a proper frame standard and when you drop HDV 1440 in FCP automatically applies a 33.3% distort (not zoom).

A 1440 x 1080 timeline means the 1920 gets squished and then on output everything stretched. Option one is correct and will require the least rendering.
Daryl K davis
June 30, 2015 at 3:12 pm

Yes, go full raster 1920 x 1080. You will not regret it.

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