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New Quicktime Player Crops your Videos on Playback!!
I just ran into the oddest annoying thing. When playing back a Quicktime file with the latest Quicktime player in Snow Leopard…exported from Final Cut or Compressor…the player crops the video!! If you play that same video clip in Quicktime 7 it looks fine and has no crop. However the same clip rendered out of After Effects and played back in the Quicktime X player doesn’t crop!??
I have tried different resolutions (SD,HD) and many formats (Uncompressed 10bit – ProRes) and the same result. This is a problem for proofing with people who have Snow Leopard they will be seeing a slightly cropped image! Is this a known issue? Am I the only one with this problem? Is their a bug in the Final Cut suite and Quicktime X player connections? I have included an image example below. You can see the difference in spacing below the line “Internet video” on each clip….Quicktime Pro 7 on the left and Quicktime X on the right, both playing the same file. Can anyone recreate this on there setup? Thanks.My Specs:
Mac Pro 2,1 , Dual Quad 3GHz, 9GB RAM, ATI X1900, Kona 3, Final Cut Studio 3, Adobe CS3, Snow Leopard.
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Am I alone in this? I need to know if this is a known bug or something quirky on my system. If so I will wipe my workstation and re-install. Though I think this is an issue specific to the new Snow Leopard Quicktime player. It’s so subtle it may have gone unnoticed.
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Same thing happening here. Created a 720p QT from a FCP reference movie – in QT7 it plays properly, but in QT X player it crops (looks like to approximately title-safe).
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Happening here too. A pain.
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if you are exporting your FCP footage with Compressor, then simply turn off the ‘Add clean aperture information’ in Encoder tab of compressor settings. That helped in my case, now QuickTime X plays the 1280×720 movie without overscan / cropping.
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Hi there, I’ve just noticed this same thing on some FCPX training videos I downloaded from Larry Jordan. When I play the files in Quicktime or iTunes on my desktop they are slightly cropped. When I play on my iPad they are fine or using VLC on my desktop, again no problems. They are 720 h.264 files. I’m sure they were made with Compressor or FCP
Any ideas? I’m using Quicktime 10.1 and OSX 10.7.2
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most probably Larry Jordan missed my tip… 🙂
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Hello –
If my converted footage from Compressor accidentally had the the tab checked, is there any way to still export full 1920×1080 from FCP without the letterbox?
Russel
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