[David Burrows]

or to answer your question more accurately..

1828×778 is precisely half the vertical resolution of a 2K cinemascope anamorphic frame on film as recorded through an Arrilaser, and gives huge benefits in terms of resolution vs file size. This meant no interpolation of pixel data apart from fitting the vertical resolution to the anamorphic frame size.

[David Burrows]

It’s a high enough frame size that gives us a 2.35:1 aspect ratio for feature film work…

[David Burrows]

Thanks Sean,

Yep, render all footage is set to high-precision YPrPb, not RGB.

I think you’re correct in putting it down to the fact that I’m using a non-standard frame size.

Cheers,

Dave

[David Burrows]

Not a stupid question Peter – thanks for responding.

No I’m not getting a green bar – the clip and sequence settings match each other in every way – it just has this degraded display in the Canvas when playing. I’m happy enough with the reasoning from Walter and others that it is the odd frame size that’s causing the problem – but I’d love to know why FCP is behaving this way..

Cheers,

Dave

[David Burrows]

Yes – I’m monitoring in the Canvas window only – not through a card onto a broadcast monitor (which does fix the problem) I think Rick (above) does raise an interesting point though – why does FCP degrade the image in the Canvas window if it’s an odd frame size?