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I work at a university and we currently shoot performances in SD and capture to an older G4 with FCP 4.5 (multi-cam through a Grass Valley switcher, converted to firewire for capture through a JVC miniDV deck, if any of that matters). Anyway, I'm using the standard preset captures (NTSC Firewire DV, or whatever the basic one is) and everything appears fine on the capture system. However, we transfer it to a computer in our lab running FCP7 (new iMac) to edit and burn to DVD, or whatever delivery method we need.
Anyway, the problem is, when we open it in FCP7, the frame is stretched to widescreen. Checking the format of the clip, the anamorphic field is checked. Unchecking this corrects the issue. Looking at the preview in the finder back on the G4 it was captured on, it is still stretched to widescreen, but opening it up in FCP4.5 it is 4:3 (and the anamorphic field is unchecked). I've double-checked the capture preset we're using and any reference to anamorphic is blank. How does it become anamorphic the moment you look at it outside of the version of FCP it was captured in (while even still on the capture system's Finder), yet returns to normal when you bring it back into that version? And more importantly, what am I overlooking to change so I don't have to constantly change it once we get it down to the edit suite?
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Fairly certain I'm not...
When I check the clip's info (right-click on it in the bin) on the G4 machine (with FCP4.5), anamorphic is unchecked. I opened up the Easy Setup and the current setup was Custom (but no anamorphic--was custom because it was set up from the DV-NTSC setting, but device control changed to non-controllable device since it's a live source). Opening up the Capture window and going to the Capture Settings tab showed Capture/Input as DV NTSC 48kHz (not anamorphic).
I went ahead and just reset the Easy Setup and changed it to non-controllable device again, in case something was screwed up and it just didn't show. Guess I'll try to record something and see how it turns out now. Worst case, we'll just always uncheck anamorphic once we get the clip into the FCP7 editor.

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