The screen capture codec is H264. I tried several different codecs but nothing is working (source video and sequence ). The text is clear before I import it into final cut. The problem is that final cut is changing the height of the video when it is imported. The actual video does not have black bars on the top and bottom but when I import it into final cut, it shrinks the actual video height from 750 to about 630 causing 120 pixels of the canvas background color to display on the top and bottom. The video will export 850 by 725 but it will look like it is widescreen when it shouldn’t be I would assume that since final cut is changing the height, it is causing the video to display poorly but I cant find what is causing this.