Exporting stills from 16:9 timeline distorts

[Bill Pryor]

I'm trying to export some still pix from my 16:9 timeline (HDV 1080p24)...I park on a frame, go to export, go to QT Conversion, export as a jpg or whatever, and it always comes out squished into a 4:3 aspect ratio. Is there a way around this? Thanks.

[Tom Hardwick]

What happens if you import it into Photoshop and look at the image size? Is it shown as a 4:3 rectangle? Of course you could simply resize there, but I suspect the settings for the still frame export in your NLE are set wrong.

tom.

[Daniel Browning]

Originally Posted by Bill Pryor

I'm trying to export some still pix from my 16:9 timeline (HDV 1080p24)...I park on a frame, go to export, go to QT Conversion, export as a jpg or whatever, and it always comes out squished into a 4:3 aspect ratio. Is there a way around this? Thanks.

That's normal. HDV is 1440x1080, so it is natively "squished". For display, it is stretched out to 16:9. Stills must be stretched out manually (Image->Resize->Do not constrain proportions->1920x1080).