[Helena Kristen Guenzel] "I changed the ProRes HQ to ProRes and it's still stretching the footage. Should I also change the frame size?"
The frame size in Color only works in full raster sizes. So your anamorphic 1440x1080 is going to be stretched to the full 1920x1080 in Color. What you get back in Final Cut Pro should be a full raster 1920x1080 ProRes timeline.
We've done this exact process dozens of times with DVCPro HD material into Color. Those timelines are either 1280x1080 or 960x720 depending on whether we're in 1080 or 720 in the original footage. Then they render back out 1920x1080 or 1280x720.
You have to be sure you remain in the ProRes timeline when you send the footage back to FCP and that you set up your system for ProRes playback.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
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