Jaap Verdenius
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I guess that if you want to make a 16:9 image cover a 4:3 frame fully, with no black bars left/right or top/bottom, then it follows that you have to blow up things one way or another – and that is the unavoidable reason for picture degradation…
Jaap
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If you drop a 16:9 clip into a 4:3 sequence FCP will adjust the aspect ratio and you will get a 4:3 letterbox (unless you allow FCP to change sequence settings as it will ask you when it is the first clip you drop in).
You can find the aspect ratio in the motion tab of your clip under Distort. It will be -33,33.
Scaling the clip to 133% will make it full frame vertically (no more letterbox) and crop it horizontally.Jaap
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Hmm… but I tried this with my DSR-11 and then it worked – and frame size was the crucial thing, not codec. Check if the sequence you are trying to print is really 720×486.
The export-to-QT-and-reimport route probably won’t work when you did not take frame size into account on export (it is the only reason I can think of why FCP would come up with the change-seq-settings-to-match-clip box). You can check this in the browser – the reimported QT should not only be NTSC but also 720×486.
Anyway – you might ask yourself indeed if it is worth all the effort to you. Indeed a VHS is lower quality than a DVD (especially sound), so a vhs copy from the dvd may look as good/bad as straight from FCP. My point of view is more academic – I am absolutely sure your problem can be solved within FCP. But I were in your position I might not bother about it – a vhs from a dvd will do…
Jaap
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Perhaps the problem is not ProRes, but frame size.
Create a new sequence with the preset DV NTSC 48kHz anamorphic, and drag your original sequence from the browser into that timeline (FCP will scale it to fit).
Does that get a signal to the DSR-20?
Jaap
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Seems to work… I get the XML Error log as you described in your document. But I can export and import 12 fps from this modified sequence. So it can be done – great!
Did you ever work out if you can modify the frame size this way?
Jaap
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A too-late response –
You can do File>Print to Video, with your video playback settings to Firewire and simply connect your VHS to the output of your DSR-20.
Jaap
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Or do it in Motion. You can define the aspect just the way you want to (in the project properties).
If you have FCP 6 then you also have Motion (3).Jaap
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And does it work if you do File > Export using Compressor? (in Compressor you can choose the same settings that you used with export to Quicktime, so you can get to the same result)
If it works it would at least solve your current problem and it may be a workaround in the future.Jaap
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Perhaps a stupid question, but… did you leave an out mark in the timeline?
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The guy in the mindsuburbia forum mentioned editing the .mov with a hex editor (like 0xed).
He searched for m2v1, found the string twice, replaced it with mp2v, saved and then it worked – that’s what he wrote.Did you try that?
Jaap