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Tunnell Mill

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When I export to H.264 Web Download out of Final Cut Studio, my anamorphic footage remains 4:3...any ideas on how to get it to anamorphic to upload to the web? What settings should I use to get the best quality, too? I notice a lot of people's clips, music videos, trailers, etc., are in a very large, widescreen (minus the black bars) format - just need to know how to do the same. Thanks for any help!
 
You need to go into the export settings and click custom size.
1024 x 567 is full 16:9 for PAL or go 512 x 288 for half the size.
Hope this makes sense.
Cheers
-matt
 
I'm not sure if QT Pro allows you to encode anamorphic resolution.

However there is a work around, if you resize the output to the correct aspect ratio.

For example, if your 1440x1080 file's resolution should be 1920x1080, you could encode a full res file, by:

stretching it out to 1920x1080

Doing half resolution at 960x540 (1920 by 1080 / 2)

Or quarter at 480x270 (1920 by 1080 / 4) and so on.

PROTIP: Be aware that some encoders will induce a line or a pixel shift if your video frame size isn't divisible by 8. Sometimes the file has to be encoded at 1920x1088.
 
Thanks for the quick responses - not sure I completely understand, but will give it a try. Might be back with more questions!
 
Still not doing something right & new questions...

Still not doing something right & new questions...

Ok. I went the 4Mat route as I'll have to admit, I was totally confused by the Demistate posting. The size looks right after trying again, but the image is not as clear as it should be. It almost has a soft pastel-like look to it - but more or less it looks like pixelation. It's like it's almost there, but not quite. My order of doing things was this: in FCS, I went to File - Export - Using Quicktime Conversion. Under "Format" I chose Quicktime Movie. At first, I changed the "Use" pulldown menu to "Broadband-High," as I read somewhere this is what to do. But in order to change the image size, I went to "Options" and changed the size manually to 1024 X 567. (I'm a little confused on this, 4Mat, as you reference this size to "PAL"...but I did it anyway not knowing what else to do.) I noticed, however, that upon doing this, the "Use" pulldown menu changes BACK to "Most Recent Settings" although under the Options the quality reads: High. Either way, that's what I did and then I hit "Save" to the changes and waited a good hour and a half. The end result was the nice large screen in Quicktime, but the pastel-like pixelation.

Ultimately, what I'm trying to do is get exactly the clarity and sizing of this link:

http://www.vanst3r.com/carouselride03.mov

...which was recently posted here on dvxuser - I'm sure you've seen it. excellent clarity and detail and good sizing! i've read some other postings that kinda reference what i'm trying to do - somebody mentioned something about exporting out of FCS and opening the file (whatever type it was) into Quicktime 7 and then converting it there or something. nothing too clear, though. what about the other Export options, such as exporting to a basic Quicktime Movie or for that matter, what's up with Exporting using Compressor - I notice in Compressor there's a lot of compressing options, including one that says Web Download and gives several H.264 options. I've actually tried that and it did the same thing as before: a 4:3 type "fullscreen" image, and pixelated.

also, another new question:

all this is my first attempt at editing HVX footage (using 720/24) in FCS. Everything (editing wise) seems to be running smooth for the most part. however, i did some basic editing with several shots, dissolving from one to the other. i took out the natural sound and laid down a track of music. when i play the sequence, my audio is popping - almost like it is sticking a little or more like a dropping-out type sound. the music keeps playing, but it's not totally clean, either, because of these drop-out type sounds. any reason why it would be doing this? the video seems to be playing smooth without any problem...but this brings me to yet another question:

i've noticed that when i play the sequence the footage appears the smallest bit "soft" - and even still, it's pretty darn sharp...BUT...when I hit the spacebar and stop the sequence, the image instantly sharpens up just a hair. also, i've noticed that when playing over a transition, such as a dissolve, it appears that during the duration of the transition that the two images (within the dissolve) actually "sharpen"...until the transition passes, and then the clip goes a hair soft again. is this normal? do i have a resolution setting set wrong or a playback setting improperly set?

Thanks to you all for any help, I really appreciate it.
 
i took out the natural sound and laid down a track of music. when i play the sequence, my audio is popping - almost like it is sticking a little or more like a dropping-out type sound. the music keeps playing, but it's not totally clean, either, because of these drop-out type sounds. any reason why it would be doing this? the video seems to be playing smooth without any problem...but this brings me to yet another question:
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I know in older versions of FCP, mp3 sound files would have regular drop outs. I'm not sure if they fixed it, but if you're putting MP3 file in your timeline, that may be your problem. I use .aifs with no problem.
 
I sorda have the same question, but I want 2.35:1. Ive been able to get 2.35:1, but it just squeezes my footage instead of getting rid of the widescreen matte.
 
I've just had FCS for a few days and so far I've only worked with MP3 material in the sequence which may well be my problem. I'll see what happens with .aiff. I don't recall the MP3's popping in version 4.5 when I used that, though. Hard to remember. Thanks for the help.
 
Tunnell Mill said:
I've just had FCS for a few days and so far I've only worked with MP3 material in the sequence which may well be my problem. I'll see what happens with .aiff. I don't recall the MP3's popping in version 4.5 when I used that, though. Hard to remember. Thanks for the help.
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Always had trouble with mp3's
Encode aiff 48kHz.
 
Maybe this will work.
Open it in quicktime 7 pro. Go to window, then to movie properties, then to visual settings, then go to video track. Then you see you can scale the movie. Scale it in every size you want. Don't forget to unmark the "preserve aspect ratio". Then save as...
Good luck
 
i've noticed that when i play the sequence the footage appears the smallest bit "soft" - and even still, it's pretty darn sharp...BUT...when I hit the spacebar and stop the sequence, the image instantly sharpens up just a hair. also, i've noticed that when playing over a transition, such as a dissolve, it appears that during the duration of the transition that the two images (within the dissolve) actually "sharpen"...until the transition passes, and then the clip goes a hair soft again. is this normal? do i have a resolution setting set wrong or a playback setting improperly set?
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This is most likely the "real time" rendering which gives a proxy render so it's a bit soft...when you stop on a frame, it is able to show it at full resolution, hence the slight sharpening. You probably have a green line showing it's a proxy render within the timeline. When you do a full render of the timeline, it will look fine. (Under Menu>Sequence>render all)
 
In regards to the audio problems you are having:

1) Sound on Audio CDs and sound for Video cycle at different rates. Regardless of format (aiff, mp3, wav), audio CDs normally cycle at a rate of 44.1 kHz, whereas video is defaultly 48 kHz. So you should right click on your timeline and go to timeline options and change the timeline to match the audio file you are using (44.1 kHz). This should minimize most of the popping.

2) Besides that, make sure that the file you use is incredibly clean. For my music video, I was using an .mp3 of the song but eventually got the wav file sent from the studio. So whenever you rip the music off of a CD, try importing it as a .wav or just make sure to not compress it as much as possible. This will ensure the quality of your sound.

Hope this helps.
 
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