I captured mini-dv footage at low resolution on the FCP HD software to save space. I used the offline RT NTSC (photo jpg) format. I am now recapturing at high resolution using the DV NTSC 48 Khz setting. I used the batch capture function. I selected the clips from the timeline and control-clicked on one of the clips and hit capture.

All recaptured material have black bars on the top and bottom of the frame with the image looking horizontally stretched.

When I try to capture footage from the same tape at high resolution manually, the footage looks great. No problems.

Both the stretched image from the batch capture and the manually captured image from the same mini-dv tape have the same dimensions: 720 x 480.
Am I missing something important? What could I be doing wrong?

I shot the footage on a Sony FX1 using the DV mode with a 4 x3 aspect ratio.

Thank you in advance for your help.

You've got the anamorphic box checked somewhere, somehow. Check the capture preference and make sure that you have DV NTSC and not DV NTSC Anamorphic.

Even wide screen video is 720X480, the only thing that changes is the anamorphic flag which instructs the NLE to elongate the horizontal pixels to form a 16:9 aspect ratio.

-gb-

Thanks for the quick reply, Greg. I appreciate it.

I checked all capture settings. Everything looks in order. It's definitely not on DV NTSC anamorphic. Nor is it checked in one of the tick boxes.

My plan is to generate an EDL from the offline when I finish the piece and build the high res footage on a new project. For some reason, when I capture manually or use the edl function, everything works just fine. The mysterious dimension issue is mind boggling. There is definitely something I need to uncheck to eliminate the problem. For now, I'll settle for whatever works.