[Christine Metcalf]

Thank you very much, will do so

Regards,
Christine

[Christine Metcalf]

Hi there Alex.
Firstly, thanks so much for your help. I really really appreciate it.
Your solution is great for presenting a QT movie at the correct aspect ratio.
But I think I was more after a solution in Final Cut.
Let me explain:
We shot some RED footage at 3K resolution 2:1 aspect ratio.
(Square Pixels to the best of my knowledge) We need to output to PAL at 720 x 576. Obviously this footage was shot with bars for 4:3 so we framed it correctly. We now need to scale down. But clients being clients its not just scaling down as they now want to move the footage around and zoom in at various times. A bit of a pain but….
The actual question is:
Should the sequence settings then be:
Frame Size: 720 x 576 (CCIR 601/ DV PAL 5:4)or should it be PAL 4:3 (which then changes from 720 x 576 of course as the pixels are square)
and Pixel Aspect Ratio = Square.
I hope this all makes sense.
thanks again for your previous help and Hope you can help me out with this new explanation of the problem,
Regards,
Christine

[Christine Metcalf]

Thanks:)