WHY is FCP exporting my sequences as 4:3 ??

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Josh,
The problem is that when you change the “Visual setting’ you are really changing the properties of the movie.
The movie will show in FC as 1024×576 Square pixels and off course will need to be rendered if set in a PAL Anamorphic sequence.
This didn’t happens in previous QT versions.
I don’t think there is any solution. Set it 1024×576 for display, and when you want to re-process it, back to 720×576.
The Apple codecs have not a flag for Anamorphic pixels and QT interpret all the pixels as Square.
rafael.
rafael

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[Josh Evans]

Oh….

so when i start a new sequence, i should manually set it to 1024 by 576? I was just dropping the footage in, and letting it automatically size the sequence to the footage, to avoid the need for rendering.

or should i just go apple prores 422? Isnt that like a golden solution to everything?

Thanks for your reply!

[Tom Wolsky]

Do not do that. That is not the way anamorphic video works. Edit it properly and export it properly based on where you’re trying to go to. As far as ProRes, that’s up to you and depends on what you’re doing and what your needs are.

All the best,

Tom

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[Anders Haavie]

This is a totally normal behaviour. I work in dvpal 16×9 all the time.. and your qt files will always end up in 4×3. You have to manually change the aspect ratio in QT to get it right (this will be very quick and not require you to make a new file.) In quicktime go to Movie Properties. Video.. and 1024×576.

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[Rafael Amador]

!024×576 SQ pixels is not Standard PAL.
If you change the Properties to 1024×576 is possible that you would be able to use it in a 1024×576 sequence, but I don’t know the results.
Think that the movie is not really 1024×576.
Is just QT who is displaying like that.
About Proress, as any other Apple codec, it have no Anamorphic flag.
BlackMagic codesc used to do it.
Rafael

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[Jason Porthouse]

Josh,

All PAL video is 720×576, (ok not all but for these purposes) there is no such thing as 1024×576. Hold that thought… for PAL VIDEO…

So your choice is anamorphic or not. As you’ve found out, this will display as tall and thin when looked at in Quicktime – so, if youe final deliverable is a computer file the best way is to manually create a 16:9 (1024×576, 512×288 etc) quicktime/avi/flv

If you’re authoring DVD keep it anamorphic (720×576) for your encode and make sure your DVD project is 16:9, it’ll be fine.

If you’re getting interlaced artifacts, I’d expect that looking at an interlaced QT on a computer monitor. Again, what’s your end deliverable? DVD? Live with it, or create a de-interlaced copy QT for client approval if you need to. The artefacts won’t be seen on a television screen played from the DVD.

HTH

Jason

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