Producer and HDV: a way to work

[Alessio Gemma]

Hello Michael,
thanks for your reply.
I setted my HDV camcorder with the “squeeze” option during the HDV to DV downconvertion and I acquired the clip in FCP.

I’m really in trouble, because this clip appears as 16:9 in compressor and as 4:3 in QuickTime or Media 100…

When you acquire in Media 100 from the HDV downconvertion, do you set your project in SD 625i 16:9 or 4:3?

Regards,
Alessio

[Michael Slowe]

Alessio, I am in PAL land so my settings will be different but as far as your aspect ratios are concerned of course, if you want 16:9 your project has to be set 16:9 and the downconverted HDV (set to ‘squeeze’ remember) will come in at 16:9. You probably know that Media 100 does a great ‘conform’ if you are bringing in 4:3 to a 16:9 project.

[Alessio Gemma]

Hello Michael,
I’m in the PAL land too and I posted a new thread about my trouble. Read here, I explained better my trouble and.. I hope you can help me.
Regards and thank you for your reply.
Alessio