Exporting HDV as Full HD
 

I have some old HDV footage (1440 x 1080, 25p) I want to export as 1920 x 1080, 25p without black bars on the top and bottom.

I remember HDV footage playing back as full HD without bars back in the days of FCP 7 when you'd tick 'anamorphic' and something magical would happen.

Anyone know how to do this in FCP X?

Re: Exporting HDV as Full HD
 

Hi,

Not a Mac user - Premiere on PC - but in any case, HDV footage in a 1080 project or export should never have letterboxing - the vertical resolution of 1080 lines is the same. You might get "pillarboxing" which is bars on the sides, since 1440x1080 comes out to 4:3 if the software does not respect the 1.333 Pixel Aspect Ratio. Adobe does this automatically, so one can simply put HDV footage into a 1920x1080 Sequence, or export as 1920x1080, and it always looks fine, full screen. Can't believe that FCPX would not also do this automatically.

Have you tried it?

Thanks

Re: Exporting HDV as Full HD
 

FCPX does do this automatically unless the footage has been altered in some way. HDV is natural 16:9 and FCPX will recognize it and import it correctly. 720 will be converted to 1080 when brought into a 1080 timeline.

Re: Exporting HDV as Full HD
 

Sorry, my bad, it was 720 x 576 anamorphic... I didn't even consider that the Z1 not only shot HDV...

Re: Exporting HDV as Full HD
 

If you look down a way in your inspector display after you highlight any storyline asset, you'll find a setting for Spacial Conform. You can set an asset to Fit, Fill, or simply use the spacial flag it arrived with.

This can set up imported assets fill out a raster that's not the same as your storyline.

Alternatively, you can cut and paste an entire storyline into a NEW project that you're set up to have the raster that you want.

X gives you a lot of flexibility in this area.

Good luck.