Arnie Schlissel
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You’ll need to look this up in the online Compressor manual in the Help menu. Sorry, but I’m not going to take a half hour to type a tutorial for you. You need to look into the geometry tab in Compressor and set up the letterboxing there.
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Compressor wil do this. You can even make a preset or a droplet that will help to automate the process.
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Sorry, but P2 does not work that way. Nor does any file based media. If you really want to continue your current method, you need to work from tape based media, not file based.
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[Joey Burnham] “4×3 1.33 is full frame. You can still have 4×3 1.78, 4×3 2.35, 4×3 2.40, etc.
Likewise you can have 16×9 1.78, 16×9 2.35, etc. “You’re confusing the issue. SD video can only be 4×3 or 16×9. Don’t ask me, ask SMPTE.
The image inside of it can be letterboxed to be anything you want, but the shape of the video itself can only be those two aspect ratios.
Judging by Alexander’s screenshots in his original post, his video may be letterboxed inside a 3×4 video. Or maybe not. It’s hard to tell from just one screenshot.
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720×480 or 720×486 are not aspect ratios. Those are resolutions, and either one will display the same if it’s being shown right.
Your aspect ratio is either 4×3, aka 1.33 or 16×9, aka 1.78. In standard def, 3×4 and 16×9 have the same resolution, 720×480 or 486. IOW they use the same number of pixels regardless of the aspect ratio.
Your FCP manual explains this in some detail, so if you want a better explanation, I’d refer you there.
the difference between 480 and 486 is irrelevant to this problem. It’s purely a mistake in how the file was setup & flagged on your DVD or Quicktime movie.
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[Pat Appleson] “Can I just give them to him and they’ll run?”
Probably not. Give the other editor an EDL and the source tapes and have him (her?) redigitize the media from the originals source tapes in an FCP native codec.
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Was this a merged clip or a sub clip? That could account for the TC weirdness.
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How does it look on your broadcast monitor after you render? That’s the only way to judge how it really looks.
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I agree with Shane. It makes no sense to convert your main format to ProRes but not any of the other minor formats. Better to either convert the minor formats to DVCPro HD or to convert everything to ProRes. Especially the HDV and the SD material.
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What platform are you grading on? The grading system may not accept Prores or DVCPro HD.
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