Aspect ratio and Photoshop files

I think this has been covered in other threads, but I need some clarification. I'm editing a project in FCP and importing a still image (720 x 480 pixels). But when I bring it into Final Cut, it shows up "squished" and square looking.

You can prep the photo in photoshop by using the crop tool set to 720 px x 480 px x 72. That should give you 1012.5k file which will fit right into the timeline. If you are doing some basic animation bump the res up to 150. For anything over 2x moves you should work with the high res picture file with AE or the StageTools plugin. High res picture files dropped into a FCP timeline may crash the program

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