Convert aspect ratio (from 1440p to 1080p)

Hi All,
I'm using the trial of Premiere CC (considering making the jump from FCPX). The getting started guides on adobe's site are great but i'm having problems trying to find an answer for this question:
I shot some footage in 1440p (by mistake), i've edited it into a sequence that I want, colour graded it and put music to it. How do I crop it so that it becomes 1080p. I've used the crop effect but when I go to export it to h.264 it still exports it as 1440p but with black bars.
Can anyone help? I would be eternally grateful
Chris

1440 has a aspect ratio of 1.33. This should also be in your sequence settings.
1440 can be easily exported to 1080 with aspect ratio of 1.0.
You can also drop 1440 footage directly in a 1080 sequence, it will automatically fit the screen.

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I have a problem with Aperture in combination with the pictures from my camera. I got an Olympus PL-3 shooting raws in 4032 * 3024 (4:3).
Now some time ago it seems that I accidentaly switched the aspect ratio in the settings of the camera from 4:3 to 3:2.
A book about the camera says that the camera always saves the 4:3 data in the raw but sizes the JPG to 3:2. As I import the pictures into Aperture and switch through them Aperture always has to load the picture for about 7 seconds until the ratio is correct. But then still the cropped version is shown though Aperture should ignore the crop. Is there any possibility I can get the 4:3 format?
Because on my camera as I switch through the pictures on it I can see the WHOLE raw file and not the cropped version. I found no setting in aperture to do so.
May anyone help me?
Greetings,
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Hi Andreas. I'm not following this part:
AndiMu wrote:
But then still the cropped version is shown though Aperture should ignore the crop.
Aperture is decoding and converting the RAW file (this is what takes the 7 seconds on your machine), but even then the Image you see is in 3:2 (not 4:3) and is cropped (not uncropped)? Is this in Browser, the Viewer, or both?
The camera manual is correct. The RAW file should be the full-size 4:3 dataset. You may find it useful to tell Aperture to ignore the JPG file that the camera provides along with the RAW file. Set this at "Aperture➞Preferences➞Import➞Post Import Processing". Unless you work under strict professional deadlines, I suggest keeping this set to "Standard Previews".
(Added)
Also, make sure that you have no Adjustment Presets applied on import. And you should -- it seems -- make sure your camera is set back to 4:3.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

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Very true!
But there are more cows on the loose here.
For example, the QuickTime Player Pro ( with its MPEG-2 Playout Component) will always report a square- pixel size of a .m2v file. But this is just reflecting the window size that QT decided to scale the 720x480 (or 720x576) to, because the inability for a computer screen to display non-square pixels.
So it can say that an MPEG-2 file is 640x480 when it is in fact 720x480. Even worse it can tell you 720x404 or 720x540, while none of them are even technically possible to use in MPEG-2.
It is true also that BitVice (1.8x and 2.x) allows you to encode all MPEG-2 legal picture sizes up to and including 720x576, a.k.a MP@ML ( or just SD). However, only a very few of them are legal for DVD, for example, NTSC:
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704x480
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352x240
and PAL
720x576
704x576
352x576
352x288
Roger Andersson / Innobits AB, makers of BitVice MPEG-2 Encoder
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If you aren't entirely happy with the image quality you get from this in FCP. consider buying Compressor ($49). Down-converting from HD to SD often introduces artifacts. Compressor has a resize filter that does a good job of minimizing those artifacts.
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Peter,
If you have Quicktime Pro, look for the Export>Movie to iPod option.
Besides that, I think a little of searching was enough to find some information about iPod encoding, as follows.
Video specification of iPod are:
H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video: up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats
You can find it here:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
I have NOT iPod video then, I never tried this, but my best guess is try creating a custom preset with compressor to match the mentioned video specifications and test it.
Did you search about this in iPod discussions? Probably would find some information there that help you.
Good luck !

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I shot some footage and improted it to Final Cut, it looks fine, but when I export to compressor, it does not preserve the aspect ratio. I tried the geomotry settings, no dice. What am I doing wrong?

SSGT. BARNES wrote:
Here are the details. I am exporting from Final Cut in Final Cut Studio 2. I then hit export/Using Compressor. When it is in Compressor, the aspect ratio is tall and thin. What do you think I am doing wrong?
Nothing, actually.
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Here is a little tip if you want to resize your camera images for a slide show.
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Doug,
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Hey guys
Im trying to find out how i can import a quicktime file from FCP in AE for color correction then render it back out to the same frame size and ratio. at the moment when i open it back up in FCP its not the same.
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