Wide Sceen Confusion

[John Fishback]

Export a ref movie from FCP. Drag that into Compressor. Choose from the presets a widescreen choice and encode the mv3. Also choose ac3 to encode your audio. Search on the DVDSP forum how to properly do ac3. In DVDSP import your mv2 and ac3 and go from there. All the answers are on the Cow. DVDSP-specific info will be on that forum.

John

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[Rafael Amador]

[Berr763] “I keep running into issues that I don’t understand”
Which issues you don’t understand?
rafael

[Amber Navarrete]

Since you ask. I created a motion graphics project in wide screen in AE. When xporting from AE to bring into FCP I xported it at the current size. When I brought it into FCP and set my settings to wide screen the video from AE looked like 4:3 and not 16:9. I ended up having to distort my picture when exporting from AE to 720×410 and brought it into FCP and it then looked perfect.

The client then needed a QuickTime. I ended up exporting a QuickTime from FCP at multiple deminsions to get the look I wanted. I ended up having to export a QT at 720×385 which looked the best.

What am I missing here? I am totally confused. I love the way widescreen looks but all this trouble shooting is killing me.

[Amber Navarrete]

That makes total sense. Thanks so much!

[Rafael Amador]

Berr,
When you import a widescreen movie from AE to Fc, you have to check “Annamorphic” manually in the FCs Brownser. Otherwise FC don’t recognice the picture aspect-ratio. The same atention you have to pay to teh “pixel aspect”. If you don’t set properly this data in the Bownser and set the sequence setting according, the movie won’t fit in the FC Canvas window.
Rafael

[Amber Navarrete]

I did check the Anamorphic 16:9 box in my sequence setting but I don’t see what your talking about it the browser. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thx,
Berr

[Rafael Amador]

Berr,
In the Brownser you got several columns indicating the properties of what you got in your projet (sequences, clips, graphics, audio..). Scroll the Brownser window to the left and you will find a column marked “Annamorphic”. When you import annamorphic footage to FC you have to make sure that a little mark appear in this column. If doesn’t appear you must check it by yourself otherwise FC treat the clip as 4×3. When you check it you can see in the viewer how chage from 4×3 to 16×9.
Normally FC only recognice the aspect ratio of the clips that you have captured with FC. If you export from AE, Shake or any other application, FC doesn’t know if is 4×3 or 16×9.
rafael