So I just spent an hour or so on AIM with JD, making it work. So that he can just export once instead of exporting at full resolution and then exporting again smaller.
The problem is that the HDV frame size is 1440x1080 (4:3), with an Pixel Aspect Ratio of HD (1440x1080). But the video itself is widescreen - 1920x1080 (16:9), so it's being squeezed in a sort of anamorphic. But Final Cut (version 5) didn't seem to understand this properly. When exporting, it was treating it as if it was a 1440x1080 4:3 movie. We hacked it by creating a new sequence that was 1920x1080 with square pixel aspect ratio. Then checking the Anamorphic setting on the clips, and turning off the setting in the Canvas that says "View as Square Pixels". There must be a way of setting it so that both sequence and clip are the same, and so that Final Cut knows that it's effectively an anamorphic sequence and clip. Any ideas on this would be gratefully received. At least for now JD's getting an easy export of his movies. Bloody aspect ratio and anamorphic issues must waste more time than anything else. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 23-Oct-08, at 2:17 PM, JD Lasica wrote: First, thanks, Rupert and Michael V. for the quick and incisive responses. I learned a lot today! This is quite interesting (to me, anyway). When I followed Michael's method of exporting a .dv file in FC Pro, opening it in QuickTime Pro, then exporting it as an .mp4, the resulting file was actually a quarter-inch shorter than the version I exported directly as an .mp4 in iMovie 6. (Unless I'm doing something wrong. Michael, you said: export a full resolution copy from FCP -- does that mean Export as "DV Stream"? That's what I did.) Rupert, thanks much. The Aspect Ratio is set to 0. Where do I look to see if my Clip and Sequence are both checked as Anamorphic - or not? I'm new to FCP and don't see the word Anamorphic anywhere ... thanks! jd [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
