Re: compression and aspect ratio

Hi Simon thank you much for the help...yes the source footage always looks squashed when i import in the comp screen but what I usually do is enlarge the source video to the edges of the safe areas to bring it to full screen of my monitor when I am previewing because when I dont i get the pillar bars on the sides...by making the source video bigger is that making the pixels bigger and worse?? because when I render out the final size of the video is always 720x480.. should i leave the source video squashed like that...also if i do export in quicktime as 720x480 and then import into FCE do you know if I have to make that footage anamorphic in FCE to get 16:9 result ??????
thanks
chris