Working with both 720×480 and 1440×1080 in the same project

[Eric Strand]

Are you watching the stretched movie in quicktime? Try going up to Movie Properties under Window. Go over to the Presentation tab then uncheck and check the bottom option, where it has the drop down menu saying clean, encoded pixels, etc. See if unchecking and checking that box fixes the image.

[Alexandra Hidalgo]

I’m afraid my Quicktime doesn’t have a Movie Properties or a Presentation Tab. I looked but couldn’t find one. Is there any other way to check?

I also tried to go back to editing the footage in the way it was filmed originally and letting the 720X480 footage look smaller with black borders around it, which is what it was doing when I started writing about this issue, but even if I remove the attributes (distortion and motion) somehow parts of the video still come out distorted even in Final Cut. Any ideas on that? At this point I’m OK with having some of the footage look small if I can just get most of the footage to not be stretched or blurry.

Thanks!