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seriously beginning to panic!
I really hope somebody can help me….
I have been filming on my Canon XHA1 in SD 16:9 PAL (I went down from HDV because of the codec problems with QT7).
It captured and edited in FC6 fine, absolutely no problem, all looked nice in widescreen. But when I export it, it changes to 4:3. I have solved this initially by dragging it into QT and exporting it from there as widescreen.
Only problem is, when I bring it into sorenson squeeze or any other software to convert it to a wmv or flv it goes back to 4:3 again. Even when i import the quicktime file back into FC it does the same thing. I have tried altering the sequence settings but i just get the same when i export it.
Any ideas? I need to solve this problem by the end of the week so any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance….!!!!
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7 Replies
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16×9 Sd material is known as anamorphic. Anamorphic is 16×9 material squeezed in to a 4×3 window as SD is only 4×3.
Read this and write back with questions:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/993015
Ignore the stuff about the sound.
Jeremy
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no panic, simple explanation:
when you’re in SD, there’s often a way of working in 16×9 that’s called anamorphic. SD can’t be anything but 4:3, so to squeeze all that horizontal resolution out they simply squish your image into that 4:3 box. The computer or TV needs to know that it’s squished (anamorphic) and automatically stretches it out to a letterbox presentation.
So in Sorenson you need to tell it that this needs to be unsquished and played as 16×9. Instead of 320×240, you’ll end up with 320×180 (or something to that effect.) Also when brining footage like this into FCP, there’s a box called “anamorphic” in your bins that you need to check. Then FCP will know what to do!
hope this helps!
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Thanks for replying so quickly,
the problem on the other thread seems to be the other way round to mine, but I do understand it a little better.
from capture to export, i checked every anamorphic option – or so I thought. do you think i am having this problem because i might have missed one out?
maybe if i export as hd 16:9, the aspect ratio would stick?
thanks again
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thank you, sounds very basic when you explain it like that!
only problem is, there doesnt seem to be a way of marking it anamorphic in sorenson!? I don’t suppose you know how?
Thanks again (i am pretty new to all this)
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Your footage is anamorphic, no? Or is it already letterboxed? If it’s 16×9 squeezed in to a 4×3 aspect, then it is just the same as the other thread.
You need to put a 16×9 pixel count in sorenson and it will stretch your footage approproately.
16×9 pixel counts are 640×360, or 480×270 or 320×180. You need to modify your settings to match those (they have a constrain aspect ratio option to help you as well).
Jeremy
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Sorry I don’t have Squeeze in front of me at the moment, but I believe there’s a place to set aspect ratio at the top of the main window. It defaults to 4:3, but you can set it to 16:9 up there. I think this is the only place you specify your source as anamorphic. As others said, your output will be 16:9 with square pixels, such as 640×360 or 320×180.
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Cracked it. thanks everyone for your help!
Jess
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