SOME footage squished on capture

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SOME footage squished on capture

Posted by Nicholas Johnson on April 26, 2011 at 9:08 pm

Hi there,

I’m fairly new to Premiere, but have used FCP for years so I know by basics.

I’m just having an odd problem during capture:

I’m capturing SD footage from a Canon GL2 and sometimes it will capture clips that are horizontally squished – about 5% or so I believe. Yet it will capture clips from the same TC, on the same tape, absolutely fine.

Any ideas to why this may happen?

Nicholas Johnson replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
4 Replies

Ann Bens
April 28, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Double post.
Ann Bens
April 28, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Have you been filming Standard and Widescreen on the same tape.
Widescreen is anamorfic which means it will present itself in 4:3 vertical stretched in a Standard project.
Nicholas Johnson
April 28, 2011 at 5:48 pm

Nope – have been shooting at 4:3 with this setup. It’s weird because it could be do it to one clip from the same interview and not another – it’s baffling me!
Nicholas Johnson
April 29, 2011 at 1:16 am

Here’s the properties of two files from the same INT – as you can see the dimensions are different for some weird reason!

CLIP 1:
File Path: /Volumes/Viking Drobo/Documents/Premier Documents/Capture Scratch/NewRoof-Rick pt2.mov
Type: QuickTime Movie
File Size: 148.3 MB
Image Size: 720 x 480
Pixel Depth: 24
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 16 bit – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 00;00;40;23
Average Data Rate: 3.6 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.9091

QuickTime Details:
Movie contains 1 video track(s), 1 audio track(s) and 1 timecode track(s).

Video:
This movie appears to have DROPPED FRAMES.
There are 1221 frames with a duration of 1/29.97th.
There is 1 frame with a duration of 1001/10000ths.

Video track 1:
Duration is 0;00;40;24
Average frame rate is 29.95 fps

Video track 1 contains 1 type(s) of video data:

Video data block #1:
Frame Size = 720 x 480
Compressor = DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
Quality = Normal (3.00)
Temporal = Normal (3.00)

Audio:
Audio track 1 contains 1 type(s) of audio data:

Audio data block #1:
Format = 16 bit – Stereo
Rate = 48000 Hz
Compressor = 16-bit Little Endian

Timecode:
Timecode track 1 contains 1 type(s) of data:

Timecode data block #1:
Start Time = 00;36;37;11
Reel name =

——————

CLIP 2:
File Path: /Volumes/Viking Drobo/Documents/Premier Documents/Capture Scratch/NewRoof-Rick pt1.mov
Type: QuickTime Movie
File Size: 244.3 MB
Image Size: 655 x 480
Pixel Depth: 24
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 16 bit – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 00;01;07;06
Average Data Rate: 3.6 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.9091

QuickTime Details:
Movie contains 1 video track(s), 1 audio track(s) and 1 timecode track(s).

Video:
This movie appears to have DROPPED FRAMES.
There are 2012 frames with a duration of 1/29.97th.
There is 1 frame with a duration of 1001/10000ths.

Video track 1:
Duration is 0;01;07;08
Average frame rate is 29.96 fps

Video track 1 contains 1 type(s) of video data:

Video data block #1:
Frame Size = 720 x 480
Compressor = DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
Quality = Normal (3.00)
Temporal = Normal (3.00)

Audio:
Audio track 1 contains 1 type(s) of audio data:

Audio data block #1:
Format = 16 bit – Stereo
Rate = 48000 Hz
Compressor = 16-bit Little Endian

Timecode:
Timecode track 1 contains 1 type(s) of data:

Timecode data block #1:
Start Time = 00;35;31;22
Reel name =

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