Exporting HVX to QT, losing aspect ratio

Okay, so I shot a music video on 720P24N with the Panasonic HVX-200. Everything looks great. I try and export to a web sized QT file and it looses the aspect ratio. It squishes the image into the 4:whatever standard broadcast shape. I've tried to use the custom size feature and manually punch in the 960 x720 and it still won't play the image correctly. Further, the file itself says that my size is correct... 960x 720. I've tried to go into my quicktime settings to change how it plays the file but again, nothing has worked. Any ideas?

960x720 is the dimensions of the clips already. They are anamorphically squeezed. What you need to do is export them as 1280x720.
Except, not really. For the web you'd at least half that...640x360. That will get you a normal 16:9 looking clip.
Shane

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I will give 10 points to the person who can help me.
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Uncheck the "Preserve Aspect Ratio" checkbox.
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You'll immediately see the aspect ratio of the movie change. Save the file.
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Hi you all,
My name is Alexander, I'm from Belgium.
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Hi Studio X,
Thank you for your quick reply.
The producers of the film want to upload this making of-documentary on YouTube. Therefore, I need to give them a high-quality-mov with the least possible Megabites. My film has a 35 minute running time.
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I am a novice and so have used the software in the 'out of the box' settings.
You are not alone. You're banging your head against a wall that bloodied my forehead for two days a year ago. It's not because you're a novice; I've spent years with this stuff.
Sometimes Apple's "simple" user interface isn't as intuitive as it claims to be, and this is one of those times. The QuickTime environment -- the software behind all the iApps -- is arguably the richest, most complex environment on the Mac, offering tons of possibilities. Over-simplification of QT functions in apps like iPhoto and iMovie sometimes makes it hard to get things done the way you want. You often have to rely on experimentation to figure out how Apple has implemented QT in this particular situation. And occasionally, it's crucial to borrow the sharp machete of a good book author to cut through the thickest brambles.
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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.
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Screencap 1
Screencap 2
Screencap 3
Screencap 4
Screencap 5
Screencap 6
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Distorted Aspect Ratio of Exported Frames

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I inserted a clip into the timeline.
I exported a certain frame to a file as an image.
The image file's size: 720 x 576.
I proceeded to import the image file into the project, and inserted it into the timeline.
The image's aspect ratio is not the same as the original footage.
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Does export size alter aspect ratio?

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I created a montage of old pictures and video clips in iMovie '11 and need to eventually create a DVD in 4:3 aspect ratio. I exported the movie in 1080p (1920X1080).
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1. Does the HD export size matter and will iDVD try to sqeeze the widescreen format into a 4:3 ratio?
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3. How does export size affect the ultimate aspect ratio? ( saw some similar posts but not really what I need to know)
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Hi Simon,
this is because Quicktime is showing the whole file, squashed.
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"One more thing... When I select Export to Quicktime, the frame size comes up set to 854x480 (16:9). And compression is Apple Motion JPEG A. If I use what the tutorial suggests (Apple DVCPRO50 - NTSC) it changes the frame size to 720x480 which is what is squishing it. Any suggestions is appreciated."
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Exporting Movie: Aspect Ratio

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File Type: MS AVI
Compressor: None
Color Depth: Million+
Frame Size: 960h 720v (16:9)
Frame rate: 23.976
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The strangeness continues. I played the file in BS player and SOME of the fades worked. NONE of the fades in/out to black, but I may be able to work around that issue. I have it set up where it fades in and out to a blank space on the timeline. If I insert a black video slug the fades might work. I say this because when fading with other video (I have a couple crossfades in the video) they work just fine!
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Fields: None
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EDIT: My workaround for my fading issue did not work. I have no clue why. So for some reason TWO fades work in this project, but none of the others. The two that work are a fade in and out on a set of titles on vid track 2 and a cross-fade in between two tracking shots in the middle of the project. The fades that do not work are at the beginning and end I have a series of quick fades in and out, in typical music video fashion, that do not work at all. Except when played back in CS3, but I need them to work in other media players too!
Thanks for all the help so far :)
EDIT #2:
Now even when I have the project rendering in HD Anamorphic pixels I get the same problem with the fading! It used to work when I'd render in 4:3. But now it doesn't. ARGH.

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