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Thanks Walter,
I have to admit I’ve stayed away from the Silicon Color forum since Apple bought them, it was getting a bit quiet, now I know it’s being given a new lease of life…

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Correct.
The other thing about most broadcasters not accepting 16:9 Full Height programming also needs addressing. I work for a major broadcaster, all our commercials, promo spots, newly aqquired dramas and the like are all full height. I do however work in England, so it may be different elsewhere.
The original problem of ‘squished’ pictures could be any number of things, the most likely is, as has been stated, the television reciever is displaying the picture incorrectly, it could also be that the cable company has an ARC on it’s output which has been set-up incorrectly, but it’s more than likely the telly.

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Hi,
that sounds like it’s going to work.
How long is your project? It may be worth creating an OMF of the whole project to see how big it is. You will of course have to find out which version OMF your audio tech requires. Then, as she says export a DV resolution Quicktime, with audio, for her sync reference movie.

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I’ve had that myself. If you select an M-PEG2 codec, you do not get any other options for frame sizes. I think compressor imagines that you are compressing for a ‘telly’ so it will only give you PAL or NTSC scanning standards. Not much help I know, but it ain’t you…

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[Todd Beabout] “You could just reverse the clip on the timeline (Right-click the clip, select “Speed” and check the “Reverse” box).”

You could do this, but if you are working with interlaced footage, FCP plays it back with the wrong field order, I think Nattress has a ‘proper’ reverse plug-in for that.

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Do you mean 2.35:1(not 7) that being a ‘deep’ letterbox?

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[Ben Insler] “Using MARK TO MARKERS (control+A) places an IN point at the closest marker to the left of the playhead, and an OUT point at the closest marker to the right of the playheaad. So place the playhead between markers, press control+A, set an IN point in your viewer, and do an overwrite edit, which will be IN-IN (not playhead to playhead). FCP will automatically fill the marked region in the timeline with the new clip. Remember you can do this my marking and OUT point in the viewer too and backtiming the edit”

Bang! That’s the one, thanks very much Ben…

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Google a programme called DVDxDVPro, it works quite well…

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Your footage will looked”stretched” yes, but what aspect ratio are you delivering in? If you are delivering 4:3 you will have to pull your full height DV footage in line with the beta stuff, vice versa if you are delivering 16:9 FHA. I would make sure that whatever your delivery aspect ratio, the shots should all be the same, if not you risk your programme getting kicked back!

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Hi Zak,
I originally found out this weird one from a piece of footage that had been captured into FCP, well it was two clips onto a timeline, roughly 27 minutes in total, exported to Quicktime reference and the file was huge, the same size in fact, as the self-contained movie.
I dunno with this one…