Aspect ratio of logo

I am bringing in a very large high res logo into FCPHD and part of the logo is a round circle. The sequence preset is DV NTSC. When I look at the logo in the timeline and the square pixel is checked the logo looks vertically squished, but when I look at the without the sqare pixel checked it loos fine. When I go to make my DVD in DVDSP and I make a 4x3 mpg2, the logo in the final dvd the circle looks like an egg. What am I doing wrong. I am a newbie in FCP so any help would be great.
Thanks,
John Schenkel

The canvas pulldown will not change ANYTHING except how the canvas looks within fcp. Although there are probably better ways to do this, try this. Do a copy of the logo to a photoshop file 720x534 (you might have to scale the logo down a bit). Then resize the image to 720x480, save and bring into fcp.

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Melanie Dupre wrote:
does anyone know approximately when DVD players started coming with Aspect Ratio Conversion Hardware as a standard feature? (I have a really old (pre-millenium) JVC at home that doesn't have that.)
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Andy:
Using your method of copy/paste to a new 29.98 sequence solved the problem. Thanks.
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Go make a cup of coffee, take the dog for a walk.
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Nick Holmes wrote:
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Um yeah...duh. That's exactly what I was trying to explain in the preface of my question. I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear...all these things you mention are the reasons I'm putting together a list of the technical specs of the DigiBeta I need so I can have them send that instead of the stupid letterboxed version.
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Hi Ann,
Your tip saved me a lot of time indeed....!
So I created a new sequence, made sure it was 16:9, copy pasted all of the assets, but then had to do the following:
1. Copy/Paste Attributes for all the video clips (these do not transfer);
2. As you suggested used the whole of the old sequence as a nested sequence in the new one, eliminating the video altogether.
I still had a nagging issue that the project would not render or export well - but that turned out to be an issue with rendeiring large files (the video was an uncut clip of almost 10GB, andother of 6GB). Splicing these into 10 minute segments and rendering them separately did the trick.
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