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  • Viewing HD footage on my old TV monitor looks squeezed or elongated.

    Posted by Gary Boland on April 12, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    I have two monitors to view video footage I shoot in HD with my
    Sony HVR -Z7u. One is an old color TV and the other a Visio HD TV. In the past the HD footage would show up on my old monitor letter boxed, with a little bit of black on the top and bottom of the screen. Lately the HD video on my old monitor looks squeezed and it’s full screen. What changed! I do not want people viewing squeezed video on there old TVs.

    Thanks
    Gary Boland

    Zane Barker replied 16 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • John Fishback

    April 12, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    This could be caused by a software or hardware setting. Describe your workflow, computer setup, software, how you get signal to your monitors, etc. Then folks will be able to help you out.

    John

    MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
    FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.2, Motion 4.0.2, Comp 3.5.2, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.2)

    Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

  • Zane Barker

    April 13, 2010 at 6:59 am

    How are you connecting to the old TV?

    Without knowing nobody can say.

    Hindsight is always 1080p

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