Rupert....you should take 1 minute and record this here: http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/#Compression Hate to see this solution lost.
Jay On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
