Widescreen

[Dino Vince]

just anamorphic is SD….if you’re using it, make sure your capture and sequence settings are both set at anamorphic.

[John Fishback]

You’ll need a capture device to capture a SDI signal. The AJA IO (and others) connects with Firewire. However, you may have issues using an iMac since you need to connect both the IO box and hard drive to your system and you only have one FW buss. You should not use your system drive as your capture drive.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 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

Final Cut Studio 2 (up to date)

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

[Christopher Smith]

Thanks. Sorry, I forgot to mention I am using an AJA I/O HD into a MacPro. I’m capturing at Standard Def and all of those AJA codecs only do 4:3. Right now I’m using Apple ProRess 422 NTSC.

Christopher Smith
Senior Broadcast Specialist
Warrington College of Business Administration
University of Florida

[John Fishback]

Just do as Dino suggests and you will be fine. Sorry for the confusion. I looked at your profile and it said iMacs.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 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

Final Cut Studio 2 (up to date)

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

[Christopher Smith]

Can I still do anamorphic even though there isn’t an AJA NTSC codec for it? Also, will the video scale right to anamorphic. If I remember correctly anamorphic is a really weird aspect ratio.

Christopher Smith
Senior Broadcast Specialist
Warrington College of Business Administration
University of Florida

[Joey Burnham]

All NTSC is 720 x 486 regardless of whether it’s 16×9 or 4×3. It’s just a matter of how you are displaying the picture. You can capture at the regular NTSC D1 preset. If you need to view your material @ widescreen there’s a checkbox in the browser for that. When I work with anamorphic I just capture like usual and set my external monitor to display it widescreen.
Joey

[Christopher Smith]

Right, but shouldn’t it show up widescreen in the FCP canvas? When you say there is a checkbox in the browser are you talking about FCP? When I’ve worked with DV widescreen in Adobe Premiere I could set the time line to widescreen and I had to right click on the clip and tell it to “interpret as widescreen”. Is that a similar thing in FCP?

Christopher Smith
Senior Broadcast Specialist
Warrington College of Business Administration
University of Florida

[Joey Burnham]

There’s a Checkbox in your sequence setting for anamorphic and there’s also a checkbox in the browser for your footage.

[John Fishback]

If you scroll to the right, next to the clip in FCP’s browser, you’ll see a column labeled Anamorphic. Click to set a check there. When you drag the clip to a new sequence if you’re using FCP6 it will ask if you want FCP to match the sequence settings to your clip. Click OK and you should be good to go.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 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

Final Cut Studio 2 (up to date)

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

[Steve Eisen]

You can also create an Easy Setup for an anamorphic sequence.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group