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Sean Woods · March 24th, 2006, 11:34 PM

Greetings, I shot a music video with the FX1 and am currently trying to export stills to post on the web. I exported as a PNG from FCP but the image is "squished". Did I do something wrong or do I need to just take it into photoshop to get the proper format displayed? And how would one do this?
Thanks in advance.

Jared Silvia · March 25th, 2006, 12:47 AM

that's actually what I did the other day... I thought you could mess with the still export but on further inspection, I see that it doesn't seem that you can.

Also, no image sequence import... hmm...

Boyd Ostroff · March 25th, 2006, 05:34 AM

If you export stills they will be anamorphic at 1440x1080. Using Photoshop you need to resize them to anything which fits the 16:9 proportion. 1920x1080, 1440x810 and 1280x720 are a few of the possibilities...

Dylan Pank · March 25th, 2006, 03:27 PM

Create a true 1920x1080, square pixel timeline (not an HDV 1440x1080 anamorphic one).

Drag the anamorphic 1440x1080 clips to this timeline.

Export stills from this timeline, they should be truly 1920x1080.

Boyd Ostroff · March 25th, 2006, 03:53 PM

Interesting idea. I haven't tried this with FCP5, but earlier versions of FCP were not as good at scaling images as the standard bicubic interpolation in Photoshop. Would be interesting to compare both methods.

Dylan Pank · March 27th, 2006, 05:40 AM

FCP5 has greatly improved scaling over previous versions, though it's true, Photoshop would have much better tools for this job.

However, in FCP. this method would work adequately.

March 24th, 2006, 11:34 PM	#1
Sean Woods Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 50	Unsquishing 16:9 Still Image Greetings, I shot a music video with the FX1 and am currently trying to export stills to post on the web. I exported as a PNG from FCP but the image is "squished". Did I do something wrong or do I need to just take it into photoshop to get the proper format displayed? And how would one do this? Thanks in advance.

March 25th, 2006, 12:47 AM	#2
Jared Silvia New Boot Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 23	that's actually what I did the other day... I thought you could mess with the still export but on further inspection, I see that it doesn't seem that you can. Also, no image sequence import... hmm...

March 25th, 2006, 05:34 AM	#3
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,801	If you export stills they will be anamorphic at 1440x1080. Using Photoshop you need to resize them to anything which fits the 16:9 proportion. 1920x1080, 1440x810 and 1280x720 are a few of the possibilities...

March 25th, 2006, 03:27 PM	#4
Dylan Pank Major Player Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Portsmouth, UK Posts: 611	Create a true 1920x1080, square pixel timeline (not an HDV 1440x1080 anamorphic one). Drag the anamorphic 1440x1080 clips to this timeline. Export stills from this timeline, they should be truly 1920x1080.

March 25th, 2006, 03:53 PM	#5
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,801	Interesting idea. I haven't tried this with FCP5, but earlier versions of FCP were not as good at scaling images as the standard bicubic interpolation in Photoshop. Would be interesting to compare both methods.

March 27th, 2006, 05:40 AM	#6
Dylan Pank Major Player Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Portsmouth, UK Posts: 611	FCP5 has greatly improved scaling over previous versions, though it's true, Photoshop would have much better tools for this job. However, in FCP. this method would work adequately.