[Tim Jacobs]

Alright, so thank you for everyones help. I figured out my problem, and maybe your problem too Caspian.

So i found out that stupidly i did not change the clip and sequence settings to anamorphic before i started editing. Thats the problem with that. As far as how do i fix it with a project i already did without starting over, or in Caspians case? This is how. When you export the footage as a quicktime file, open the video in quicktime and hit command J, then use those settings to manually configure the aspect ratio. 1440 x 1080 or whatever your working with. Then when you try to leave quicktime it will ask you to save those settings. And since quicktime is the basis for almost all Final Cut Suite media, it will lock the settings for wherever you bring the clip.

hopefully that solved another problem, cuz that solved mine.

Thanks guys.

[Tim Jacobs]

Thanks for your reply,

Let me lay this out for starters. I am editing with HD 1080i MP4 clips. I am trying to, for right now, just get it out of final cut as a quicktime in 16:9. I am exporting it using quicktime movie file using current settings.

I will be using many of my videos for the web, and some for DVD, but I am trying to first at least get them out of Final Cut correctly formatted before I go to the next step of sending my videos to DVD studio or Compressor.

Does that help you any?

Tim