Anamorphic export woes

I'm exporting my first anamorphic project.
Would someone be willing to walk me through the correct sequence and export settings?
I'm trying to export to Quicktime Conversion, h.264, size 480x270. I have tried several sets of sequence settings, but they all come out horizontally stretched in export no matter what I do. It's quite possible I didn't set up the sequence settings properly also.
The more I read about this, the bigger a headache I get - I know it will be necessary to go through this in more detail, which I will do next - but I need to get this file exported and would be grateful if someone would help me cut through the maze for now.
Thanks in advance.
EG

editgrrl wrote:
letterboxed in the fcp canvas window.
If it's letterboxed, it's not anamorphic.
Anamorphic means that the pixels are squished horizontally to fit widescreen content into a non-widescreen image format. Yours are not that. Your material is not squished, it's letterboxed.
I believe what you're trying to produce is a 16:9 aspect final output. The easiest way to do this is to export your timeline as a quicktime movie (not quicktime conversion), then load that quicktime movie into compressor, pick your preset - for instance H.264 800kbps - then go to the geometry pane and change the crop to a 16:9 cropping to remove the top and bottom black letterbox bars from your output. and set your sizing to an appropriate 16:9 size - say 640x360 etc...
That is if you're going to the web with this. If you're going to DVD and you want anamorphic, chose one of the DVD presets and alter your cropping as appropriate. Leave the sizing as 720x480, then when you load your clip into DVDSP, make sure you set the checkbox to let DVDSP know it's 16:9 material.
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Using the custom frame size settings I can get a widescreen version if I set to 360 288. But the image quality isn't what it was before and I don't have the pretty black bars I like so much.
Please please... is there anybody out there who can help me out? I am at a loss here...
cheers,
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ps. the new video is 6 minutes long.
pps. this is the link to the site where the original video is posted, it was exported using the Broadcast High settings (i want it to look liek that!!)
http://www.ekvandoorne.com/04.html

Anamorphic video doesn't have black bars at the top and bottom. Anamorphic video is what you describe as "ugly squished agony" which is then unsquished on playback. If you're seeing this "problem" on playback, it's because the player doesn't know the video is supposed to be anamorphic.
What you actually want to do is export it letterboxed, which is not anamorphic.

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when I am doing some quick and dirty editing and correction, I use the method of cutting in FCP, then exporting that to a quicktime movie...I make the movie self-contained and select "Current Settings" in the Save box you get right after selecting Export>Quicktime movie.
I can then toss the original, large clip and work with the smaller one. I've done this loads of times and it's worked great, except for this evening. The exported clip doesn't come back in as anamorphic, even tho I captured as anamorphic, my editing sequence is anamorphic, so I'd hope that "Current Settings" would include the anamorphic setting.
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R

RaySkater wrote:
when I pull that exported movie back into a Duplicated of the sequence from which I exported (clips deleted, of course) I get that squashed picture with black at right and left.
I've retraced my steps a few times and other movies I've done this with turn out OK...I don't get why this one is not able to be re-imported with the proper aspect ratio.
What version of FCP are we talking here?
This might not relate to your situation but there are situations where I've found when using FCP 6 (up to and including 6.0.2, at least) where if a DV-NTSC Anamorphic sequence doesn't contain renderable material - ie, you've just made cuts and that's it, no render files to reference or export with - exporting that sequence (as Current Settings) results in a 4:3 ratio QT movie. That is, I opened up the QT movie and it showed 640x480 as the display size.
Sorry if that's no help, but I was banging my head against a wall until I 'discovered' this issue a month or two ago...

Anamorphic export failed

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Hi(Bonjour)!
Export with quicktime conversion and set a custom frame sizes that fit the 16:9 ratio.
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