Aspect Ratio in Quicktime

I have been creating a showreel of work in iDVD6. It has all been going swimmingly, except that the Quicktime Movies that I have exported from FCP and imported into iDVD, which are 16:9, are coming out squashed 4:3 (i.e square pixels. The menu and sub-menu pages look great in all their anamorphic glory. I just can't get those dang Quicktime movies (i.e the content) to play in their true 16:9 aspect ratio. Help?! I can only guess(/hope) that there is something very simple that I have overlooked.
Thanks in advance.

This is actually an iDVD issue.
You need to add a "wide" udta atom to the movie. Lucky for you, there is a little utility out there to do this for you: The Anamorphicizer
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
Run your QT movies through that, and import the resulting versions into your demo reel, they should appear in widescreen.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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Export from Motion/Aspect ratio in Quicktime

I have created my first HDV (1080i60) graphic in M3. When I export as a quicktime movie, the preview that M3 generates at the end of the export looks perfect - when I open that movie in Quicktime, the whole thing is squished together. I assume this has to do with pixel aspect ratio - I just can't figure out where the fix is here because the pixel aspect is obviously set correctly in my Motion project (1.33) Is there a setting in quicktime that I am missing that is causing the playback of my Motion animation to appear squeezed?

Yeah, sorry, I should've included that the inspector in Quicktime says that both the "Normal" and "Current" sizes are 1440x1080. This is no huuuuggggeee deal, I just wanted to show some people the graphic using just quicktime. I eventually am going to import this into an FCP sequence, but I would like to have this portable version to show on quicktime.
+Quicktime maybe doesnt see this and is showing it at the correct pixel size without adjustment+
Not sure what that comment means - the correct pixel aspect is the one coming from Motion (1.33) Is there really no way to just bring this project into quicktime and play it properly - without looking squeezed? I feel like I should be able to find some preference in quicktime that lets me switch from viewing square pixels to viewing anamorphic pixels.
Thanks a bunch Adam.

HELP! Funky Aspect Ratio in Quicktime playback.

Why would my video's aspect ratio look different in Final Cut than it does in Quicktime?
The video is NTSC and appears correctly in Final Cut (when the "show as sq. pixels" box is checked in my viewer/canvas). My sequence is set to NTSC DV, and none of the clips required rendering when dropped into my timeline, so I know I'm using the correct settings. When I export a Quicktime movie using the current sequence settings, it's width appears stretched when playing back in Quicktime.
Why would that be?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1266231&tstart=0
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Rtsp aspect ratio in QuickTime

I try to correct aspect ratio played in QuickTime 7.6 from Mac OSX Server RTSP Stream.
Quicktime open at 720x576 (4:3 PAL) than 1024x576 (16:9 PAL)…
When I open the same movie in Quicktime not streamed, Aspect ratio is correct.
Is exist a way to force directly QuickTime to play correct aspect ratio from a QuickTime Streming Server 10.5.
Whitout QuickTime Pro, or matain shith and clic drop from resize ???
Thanks for advance for any help.

This is actually an iDVD issue.
You need to add a "wide" udta atom to the movie. Lucky for you, there is a little utility out there to do this for you: The Anamorphicizer
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
Run your QT movies through that, and import the resulting versions into your demo reel, they should appear in widescreen.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Video aspect ratio in Quicktime 10

I have a slight problem with Quicktime 10. For some reason it insists on playing MP4 videos in 16:9 (widescreen) format, even when they should be in old-fashioned 4:3. As a result, everything is stretched horizontally and the image is distorted.
Is there a way of making Quicktime play a video in 4:3? Or, if not, are there other programmes that I could use instead. I'm happy to upgrade to a paid-for media player if necessary.
I should point out that I'm hardly the world's most technologically switched-on person, so I'll need a very straightforward solution! Any advice would be very gratefully received.

In imovie you can export the video in 4:3
1st - create a new event
2nd - drag & drop the video into the event
3rd - create a project
4th - drag & drop the event into the project
In the project you can set the preferences to 4:3 or 16:9
5th - Under..... Share ......Export Using quicktime.....
You can further set more export options.
Least thats the way I do it.
Or just use Quicktimes "View" drop down menu and change the preferences
Hope this helps....

Can the screen be cropped to and exported at a custom aspect ratio?

I think I'm needing Premier to do something it's just not designed to do. What I need to do is to take five or six different screen and audio captures of the same event (a 3D virtual reality instructional session), each representing a different person's view of that event, assemble those in a split screen, synchronize them to the designated "main" capture's audio, delete the other audio tracks, and add CG title labeling each one. The effect is like looking at a display showing six security camera images. From what I can determine, it is possible to do those things in Premier.
However, what I then need to do is to crop out any extra space to the left and right of that split-screen image and export the file as a .mov with the aspect ratio produced by the cropping so that the videos are as large as possible and are not distorted from resizing them to fit the standard aspect ratio. Depending on the size of the screencaps, the resulting .mov might have nearly a 1:1 ratio. What is critical for this is that the video be as large as possible and the "black" space be as small as possible so that the person who comes in later to analyze these composite videos can see everything as clearly as possible. I also need to crop on the fly; because these images aren't always captured at the same size, it is impossible to preset a size for the resulting video.
We've been using a screen capture tool to do this that works but is a pain; clips can only be moved and resized by mouse-drags, and the software has to import to and export from its own proprietary format, which is very slow. However, ever piece of "real" video editing software I've looked at only seems to export in TV or film aspect ratios. Quicktime Pro looked for a bit like the best bet, but it doesn't seem to be able to handle multiple audio tracks (which are necessary since I have to synchronize tracks by ear much of the time).
Is what I'm describing--exporting .mov files while preserving custom aspect ratios that are created by cropping during editing--something Premier can do? If so, would it be something fairly easy for complete novices to do?

medeamajic wrote:
On a Mac based system ScreenFlow might work best but on the PC side FRAPS might work best. You can do what you want to do with Premiere Pro once you record the screen capture. As Stephen_Spider mentioned you might need to crop and even resize the images. FRAPS can record at 1/4 the screen resolution and still have decent results. PP CS 5.5 can play several layers (6 PIPs) of the FRAPS codec at 1/4 resolution in realtime.
Thanks, but we cannot change the screen recording process. According to the study's protocols, the virtual world has to be full-screen or almost nearly so during the session, and that full screen has to be captured for analysis. Resizing the screen captures is not a problem (especially since I already said I'm doing that), but if you're saying that Premier can only play back up to six screen captures simultaneously if they're captured at 1/4 screen, then that's a deal-breaker right there.
By the way, here's approximately what each of the completed composite videos looks like:
Screencap 1
Screencap 2
Screencap 3
Screencap 4
Screencap 5
Screencap 6
Each screencaptures is resized to the largest consistent size that will fit into this format, and then the resulting video is cropped to the outside border. If there are only five screencaptures, I simply center the single one on the bottom on the "center line."
And, to be clear (though I've said this several times already), this is something that is already being done. We probably have more than 60 of these .mov files, each around 45 minutes long, with five or six synchronized screen captures in each. Frame rate etc. has not been any issue with these, and neither has playback of the .mov file from HD or DVD.
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"Preserve Aspect Ratio" Bug w/ DV Export

Hi,
I searched around and found no mention of this behavior, so figured I'd post what I discovered. There is a subtle bug in QuickTime when you convert to DV and check "Preserve Aspect Ratio" in the Size options. It's intimately connected with how QuickTime scales DV for display on screen.
DV resolution is 720x480, but with rectangular pixels. So some scaling is done to display the image using the computer screen's square pixels. The height to width ratio of a DV pixel is 1.1, so the correct resolution (i.e. no distortion of the image) to use on screen is about 654x480. But wait! QuickTime plays back DV at 640x480, and it's not distorted. What gives?
QuickTime knows the correct scaling factor and is actually displaying the image at 654x480, but it's chopping 7 pixels off the left and right sides to fit it in a 640x480 window. (The effect is even more pronounced with anamorphic 16x9 DV - 11-12 pixels get lopped off either side.) It's only a display issue - the pixels are still there, they're just not being drawn. It's a subtle effect you never really notice, and you get distortion-free playback.
The problem occurs when you need to export some video to DV that's not a standard aspect ratio (like the 2:1 clips I was converting). When you check the "Preserve Aspect Ratio" box, QuickTime scales your video to the 640x480 display area, keeping the original aspect ratio like it's supposed to. BUT it then proceeds to take the full 654x480 frame and encode it to DV. You end up with a very thin black border on the left and right, and ironically the aspect ratio you wanted to preserve is ever so slightly squished!
You never see the problem in QuickTime Player because of the display scaling trick, so all looks well. But bring the converted DV into iDVD or Final Cut and you can see the black border. (Again, it's more pronounced with anamorphic widescreen.) "Preserve Aspect Ratio" thus only exactly preserves the aspect if the only thing you're going to use to view the video is QuickTime. It is subtle, but if you're compositing the converted video with DV from another source it can be bothersome.
Hope this proves helpful,
-Robb
Dual-Core 2 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) QuickTime Pro 7.1.5

I've seen the border in Final Cut. This is good to know - thanks.

IDVD gets 4:3 aspect ratio wrong

I am using iDVD 7.1.2 with 10.9.5 on a macbook pro.
I'm trying to make a 4:3 DVD (legacy material, it's 4:3 from old VHS tapes).
I output a .mov file from Final Cut Express. The file plays correctly in Quicktime. I.e. I get the right (4:3) aspect ratio. Quicktime inspector reports the movie format as DV/DVCPRO - NTSC 720x480 ( 853 x 480).
I create a new DVD project, select 4:3 aspect ratio.
I import the movie and it is squeezed horizontally. I.e. the aspect ratio is 3:3 (maybe not precisely, but darned close). Everything is tall and skinny.
I tried changing the project to 16:9, hoping that would stretch things out, but all it did was add dark space on the sides of the video.
I've tried various different output sizes (using quicktime conversion in FCE), to no avail. I always get a 3:3 aspect ratio in iDVD.
I also burned to a disk image and played it with DVDplayer just to make sure that the preview in iDVD wasn't fooling me. It's 3:3, also.
Any ideas on what to do??????? I have a lot of old VHS to convert and would like to get a flow down pretty quick.

OK, I played around with this long enough that I think I have it.
The problem is actually the way I set up the sequence defaults in Final Cut Express (probably would work the same in FCP). I didn't realize I had the sequence set to "DV-NTSC anamorphic". It should have been set to "DV-NTSC".
The result was that I imported a 4:3 .mov file into FCE, where it seemed OK, even in that sequence. However, FCE had inserted black space on the right and left of the 4:3 video, creating a 16:9 video with a 4:3 inside of it and the black bars surrounding the video. When that was imported into iDVD, iDVD forced the whole thing to 4:3, which of course, forced the actual 4:3 video to 3:3. Changing the sequence preset too NTSC solved that problem completely.
One of the things that confused me was that two other DVD authoring programs handled this without obvious problems. Torch and Wondershare DVD converter both displayed the video at 4:3. Also, quicktime displayed it correctly. There were the black bars on the side, but the aspect ratio of the actual picture was correct.
I'm putting this here because I can imagine that some other beginner will confront this someday, and at least here is a record of the problem and the solution.

Changing aspect ratio of copy protected videos?

I am attempting to watch a widescreen TV show I purchased through the iTunes store on my LG plasma screen. My usual setup is a digital video out and into the plasma using VGA. The screen in this mode only gives me two aspect ratios to choose from: 16:9 or 4:3. In 16:9 mode the image appears streched and in 4:3 mode I have black margins an boths sides of the screen. When I watch a widescreen video in 16:9 it is streched with margins at the top and botton and in 4:3 mode I have now margins left and right and top and botton. I therefore usually change the aspect ratio in Quicktime so that it displays correctly in 16:9 format on the plasma. Unfortunately the new TV shows in the store are not just copy protected but I now cannot even change the aspect ratio of a video anymore under "movie properties". So the only option I have is to use the S-video output of my old Powerbook and connect to the composite input of the plasma. While this gives me many more aspect ratio options (intrinsic to the design of the plasma) the picture quality is poor. So how can I solve this? I do not want to purchase Apple TV. I have everything hardwired and do not want to change that. I understand that the files need to be copy protected. However, Apple should enable me to change the aspect ratio of a video to be able to view movies at high resolution and without a distorted picture. Any idea how to solve this?

Hi Sameer,
Thanks for your note, but the issue a bit different. Clicking the "fit page" and "fit width" allows you to change the zoom on the document, but the viewing area within the pod remains at a fixed ratio. So the document (unless the pod size is set at the same ratio) never fills the entire pod. Is this clear? I've added some screen shots to show what I mean more clearly.
As you can see, no matter what the zoom level is on the PDF (or if it's to fit width as the above screen shot), it's constrained proportionally (as I mentioned, I think it's at 4:3). Ideally, I'd like to get the PDF so it can fill the entire pod and zoom in and out. Is this possible with Connect?
Thanks! Appreciate your help.
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Text and aspect ratio for creating it in Photoshop

Hi there,
I am doing something that will be displayed via a laptop. I am making titles and text blocks in photoshop, because the text feature in FCE looks quite bad with scrolling or animated texts. I am confused about the aspect ratio. For something that is going to be played on a laptop>projector, would i create the text in 720x480 OR 740x540. Thanks for your help, i really appreciate it.
Karen

Karen,
If you will be viewing on a TV or burning a DVD, you need to account for the rectangular pixels of that output. If you will be using Quicktime to view the movie to a projector, you will need use a different aspect ratio.
So: TV/DVD
Create image at 720x540
Add text
Image Size, unclick Constrain, size to 720x480
Add to FCE. Go to Motion:Distort:Aspect Ratio:0
Quicktime:
Create image at 720x480
Add to FCE - Image will look sqeezed, but will be fine in QT.
Personally I would use the text creators in FCE. Remember, text will look BAD until it is rendered and output. Preview on Canvas is not good.
Hope this helps.

Can anyone tell me if Quicktime Pro retains aspect ratio once a video is rotated?

I'm reluctant to purchase Quicktime Pro until I know the answer to this question and Apple Support doesn't seem to have anyway to ask, so I thought I'd try this group.
I took some videos with my iPhone (the long way), and need to be able to rotate them and convert them to avi files. I understand that Quicktime Pro can do the rotation and conversion, but I saw one review that said the aspect ratio is not retained, i.e. the video comes out flattend (wider).
Can anyone tell me if this is still true with QT Pro, or if there are other solutions for resolving this outside of QT Pro?? I have tried a number of other converters, and found one that rotates, but aspect ratio not retained.
Thanks in advance for any help shared!!!

I took some videos with my iPhone (the long way), and need to be able to rotate them and convert them to avi files. I understand that Quicktime Pro can do the rotation and conversion, but I saw one review that said the aspect ratio is not retained, i.e. the video comes out flattend (wider).
This may or may not depend on your specific work flow. Many "settings' saved to the original file by QT 7 Pro are merely "playback instructions" which may or may not play correctly in other media players while these same settings do work properly when saved/converted to a new file container. In addition, not being a Windows user, I don't know if there are are any significant differences between the Mac and Windows versions of QT 7. In any case, I just took a short sample clip, stored it on my hard drive via Aperture 3, opened the file in QT 7 Pro, rotated the clip in QT 7 Pro, and used the "Save As..." command to store the modified file. This modified file now plays correctly in current versions of the QT 7, MPEG Streamclip, and VLC media players. Have uploaded a copy of this file so you can download it, test playback in various players you normally use, and/or test convert it to your specific AVI audio and video compression formats.
SAMPLE ROTATED FILE
Can anyone tell me if this is still true with QT Pro, or if there are other solutions for resolving this outside of QT Pro?? I have tried a number of other converters, and found one that rotates, but aspect ratio not retained.
As indicated above, the file plays correctly for me in various media players and all media "Inspector" windows, including other third party media information utilities, confirm the correct dimensions and aspect ratio as displayed. As to AVI conversion, I test converted the uploaded file to AVI (DivX5/MP3) at original dimensions using VisualHub. (Also tried the VideoMonkey AVI encode but it limited the source 720p file to a 720x480 output and I did not know if you were agreeable to such a restriction.) Suggest you run similar tests with your preferred Windows converters to confirm/refute results on your system.

Aspect ratio problem with Quicktime Conversion from FCE HD 3.5

I have a FCE 3.5 HDV project (16:9 aspect ratio) which I am trying to export using Quicktime Conversion for eventual web-streaming. I have tried various settings including "maintain aspect ratio" and the "letterbox" options. After every multi-hour attempt, the end result is just what I need, except the aspect ratio is always 4:3 and vertically squeezed.
What settings should I use for a small to medium sized version of my movie for streaming on a website, but in the correct aspect ratio? I'd prefer a 16:9 Quicktime frame, or at least a 4:3 Quicktime frame with black bars.

I too have been having some problems, same software. Export to iPod completely ignores the intended aspect ratio and is non-adjustable and squeezes the footage. It looks fine on the canvas but gets messed up on export. A 4:3 video that should be 640x480 ends up being 640x426, and a 16:9 video that should be 640x360 looks to be getting 640x426 as well.
Currently, my work-around is to export to DV file, then export to iPod. Being a double encoding, it is quite wasteful in terms of time and processing power. Is there something else I can do?

Export to Quicktime Movie Results in Aspect Ratio Distortion

All of my original footage was shot in miniDV. I have created a sequence with the following settings:
Frame size: 720 x 480
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
Pixel Aspect: NTSC - CCIR 601
Vid rate: 29.97 fps
Ultimately the sequence needs to go to DVD with a standard 4:3 aspect ratio. To export, I am using:
File > Export > QuickTime Movie...
I have tried using several different settings including:
Apple Pro Res 422 NTSC 48 kHz
Apple Pro Res 422 NTSC (HQ) 48 kHz
Apple Pro Res 960x720 30p 48 kHz
DV NTSC 48 kHz
etc...
All settings yield the same result: a slightly squeezed aspect ratio. At first, I thought that this might simply be the fact that I was playing back files in QuickTime which uses square pixels I believe. But in both DVD Studio Pro and iDVD, the simulation shows the same effect. (By the way, Finder's "Get Info" reads the resulting Final Cut Pro Movie File dimensions 720x486.)
I'm fairly new to FCP so I'm hoping there is something obvious that I have missed. Can anyone explain what I need to do to get the video to DVD without a distorted aspect ratio?
(Incidentally, I have managed to export using quicktime conversion with no problem. But I need the export to be a Final Cut Pro Movie File so as to maintain chapter markers, etc.)
Advice welcome!!!

Hi David, I know this was discussed in you posting already but I just wanted to make sure I had it clear. I have a 4:3 film and I've exported as a quicktime movie with current settings, which should be 4:3 and found that the image when played back in quicktime, looks horizontally stretched. Almost as if quicktime is trying to play it back as a 16:9 image. I think this is the same issue the other fellow was having but I just wanted to be clear. You're saying that the 4:3 image distortion is perfectly normal when played back in quicktime on a computer screen and that the export will look fine when put to DVD or sent to a monitor? I just wanted to make sure because this problem is freaking me out and I don't want to deliver a distorted image to my client. Could you also explain briefly why this happens with quicktime export and not quicktime conversion and what causes quicktime to distort the 4:3 image? Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
james.

Quicktime x displaying incorrect aspect ratio

Hi,
I have a strange display issue with QT X which is occurring on both my MacBook Pro and Mac Pro.
Quicktime X is displaying all movies in a squashed aspect ratio. For example a 640x360 movie is displayed (actual size setting) as 640x340. The same movie displays correctly in QT 7 Pro. The same movie also displays in the correct aspect ratio in iTunes.
What QT X appears to be doing is displaying the images squashed by 20 pixels. for instance a 1920x1080 actually displays as 1920x1060. The image is not trimmed just squashed into a frame that is 20 pixels too short. It happens with all movies including ones downloaded from Apple.
any ideas anyone?
Thanks

Are other people are encountering this distortion?
I'm not and I routinely convert and proof 4 to 12 files a day as part of my processing activities. In addition, neither test files download from the trailers area nor files sent me for examination seem to display this aberration.
I wonder if it is something to do with the transport commands moving from underneath the frame to within the picture area.
Not sure what you are referring to here. If referring to the controls which are visible when the cursor is hovering above the player window, they have nothing to do with changes in the display dimensions as detailed by the "Inspector" window on a properly functioning system.
I'm not sure this is the issue
Have explained the basic mechanism governing the normal display of files played in the local players. Basically, either the problem is in the file itself or the problem is in the manner in which good files might be playing in a corrupted or software conflicted player. Comparing playback under different user accounts or on different systems might reveal if the problem is local to your account and/or system. If you don't have a secondary system available locally, posting a test file for comparison by others might determine the problem source.

Quicktime X and 7 aspect ratio problems

I have scoured the net and not come up with a single solution to this issue.
I have hundreds of music videos, home videos etc in Quicktime 7 format. The ratio of these files varies at a pixel level, but are corrected in Q7 size feature.
It's not just an anamorphic issue, as many videos are cropped from a non anamorphic 4:3 'letter boxed' source.
Now QX does not display them correctly at all, which until recently wasn't the end of the world, but from the last update, iTunes began using the X ratio as opposed to the correct adjusted ratio, so music videos in iTunes, QX, the iPad, you name it, the videos created this way do not display correctly.
That basically is every video on my Mac created from the late 90's to recently.
Any ideas, solutions? How on earth can Apple do something so amateurish, and why is there no major uproar.

So what you're saying is, Apple are telling me "thank you for your loyalty in using our hardware since 1988, and building up a video collection based on our software, but we've decided to do a version of Quicktime that ignores the size tag you have being using for the last 14 years (I started video work on Quicktime in 1997), and screw any videos you did to this point, unless they had square pixels?"
Not exactly. I believe that what they are saying is that QT is growing old. The technology on which is is based was fine for the codecs and techniques of its time, but video technology is constantly changing and it is no longer practical or possible to keep making updates and patches that don't, in and of themselves, create new, more serious problems than they solve. QT X is based on technology designed to make this process of evolution easier and it is likely we will see many new changes over the coming decade. However, in the meantime, they have not done away with QT 7 or Front Row, both of which continue to display your files correctly even under Snow Leopard. I personally continue to use QT 7—mainly because I have it keyed for "Pro" use and prefer its functionality to the what I call "Not quite ready for prime time" version represented by QT X which likely appeals to first time Mac users.
New videos are fine, I just encode them to square pixels anyway and ignore any PAR nonsense at the encode stage, but then if the PAR value is what they are using now, why not allow an option in QX to set that, so at the very least I could resize the old videos to correct format.
Not sure if Apple would be willing to provide what amounts to developmental support for an application they are phasing out. Still, it wouldn't hurt to ask. If enough people should request such an enhancement, they might be willing to at least consider the possibility.
Re-encoding them is just not an option, incurring further loss, on videos that in some cases are already marginal.
While I stated that corrections are normally made during the encoding process, it isn't the only method of setting the PAR value. Unfortunately, it is the most accurate method.
My point with anamorphic is that it will simply change 4:3 to 16:9 if there were some option to hit a check button.
Actually, using modern encoders, you can utilize any custom PAR setting desired but I am usually more interested in other aspect ratios like 1.66:1, 1.85:1, 2.40:1, and 2.35:1 since most of my work is centered on the conversion of movies for use on my TV devices.
More flexibility is needed, especially from a platform that is supposed to be pro. Ever tried formatting videos for a vertically placed Plasma for exhibition work, on a video file that isn't square pixel?
Not as uncommon as you might think. I also layer over still or video backgrounds to frame the main video and fill the unused device display area.
I have videos for example that are 800 x 400 (due to an original source, or a crop from the source, but view at 4:3 with the size setting, as they should. Now they look ridiculous displaying at 2:1, and there is no way to change it.
I would normally employ masking here to avoid one level of re-compression.
The size option allowed it to be displayed as you wanted it to, after encode.
More importantly, the Size (Scale) option allowed you to avoid having to re-encode the file since it can be saved back to the original file container (assuming no other changes were made the forces a re-encoding of the file).
It worked, it was done as Apple wanted, due to the size option being the only way to do to non-square pixels, and now they say, nah, we're not doing that anymore?
You seem to be forgetting that when QuickTime was initially introduced almost 20 years ago, users did not have to worry about scalability options, low-compression, high data rate broadcast standards or anamorphic DVDs because there weren't any such work flows for the Apple/Mac platforms of that era nor could they handle them anyway.
So basically Quicktime now contains no ability to format non-square pixels, unless it is done at the encode?
True, but as hinted previously, Apple and QuickTime isn't the only game in town. Based on your question, I went back and played around with Subler. Had been told that this app would allow the user to embed PAR value but was never able to get it to work. Finally managed to get a 720x480 (636x480) encoded movie trailer to play back as an 852x480 display in both QT 7 and QT X on my Snow Leopard system. This proves that it can be done without re-encoding, but there do seem to be some limitations. For instance, since I normally encode using macro-block 16 dimensions increments and Subler seems to like increments of 12 pixels, some PAR and Size target values may vary by 4 pixels. In any case, you may want to Google the app and give it a try. You still have to process each file but not actually re-compress the data.
It is barely believable that they would do that.
Please excuse me, but I do have to chuckle here. It seems as if you feel that Apple has taken something away from you. I, on the other hand, tend to view it as not missing something I never really had. I do, however, agree that it would be nice if both applications were able to access/change both PAR values and display size values for better compatibility between old and new technologies.

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