[Mandy Brown]

Sending a test is a great idea. I wasn’t sure if the projector would be able to desqueeze it properly if I manually adjust the frame settings, without adjusting the pixel aspect ratio? Does anamorphic mean it needs to have a rectangular pixel or is square pixel ok?

Appreciate your help, John!

[Mandy Brown]

Hi Dave,

Below are the delivery specs I received. They all make sense, but I don’t know how to export anamorphic. By the way, the footage is 2048×860.

• Quicktime movie in native resolution (HD 1920 x 1080, minimum resolution of 720 x 480/NTSC) • Uncompressed, ProRes (HQ) Codecs (preferred), H.264 (acceptable)
• Animation Codec for animation only
• Keyframes on the frame rate – 24 for 24fps (preferred), 23.98 and/or 29.97 (acceptable)
• Aspect Ratio should be 16:9. We understand your film might be in 1.85:1 or 2.39:1 or 4:3 as an aesthetic choice, but please conform your video file to 16:9 before delivering to us. If you do not, we will conform the video file ourselves at our discretion. When conforming the video files on your end, please be sure to make it anamorphic.
• Minimum bit-rate of 700Kb/s
• Please always indicate the frame rate and aspect ratio on your media • For SD widescreen content (which we do not prefer), clips should be “anamorphic” (squeezed), but letterboxing will also work. For 4:3 content in SD, just send it full frame, there is no need to letterbox or squeeze. For 4:3 content in HD, please pillarbox your video
• Make sure that your clips are not encoded with a proprietary codec from your capture card or editing system, as we likely won’t be able to open these

[Mandy Brown]

Thanks Michael! I think it may be the audio levels were peaking. I brought it into Soundtrack Pro and could see that the levels were going up to 6db on the problem clips, whereas in Final Cut I could only see them max out at 0. (The audio wasn’t too great, so I guess I was trying to compensate by making it louder.) Anyway, after bringing the levels down, the noise went away. Does that seem to make sense? Thanks so much for all your help!

[Mandy Brown]

I tried exporting to my sequence settings and also as an aiff – 48 khz, 16 bit

[Mandy Brown]

Hi Michael, thanks so much for responding. The sound is from the camera and is the same for all clips – 48 khz and 16 bit. My sequence settings are 48 khz and 32 bit floating point, though when I pull up the window to change the sequence settings, it says 16 bit. I don’t know as much about audio as I probably should, so please bear with me. Could it have to do with my sequence being 32 bit?