Mysterious changing aspect ratio
by Lauren Everett
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Sep 30, 2008 at 5:42:10 pm
I started working on this project with only 7 G of free memory, which I was advised was a bad idea, but I wanted to see if I could bypass buying an external harddrive because the project will only be 2:30 min. Fyi, the footage I'm using was shot on an older model consumer DV camera, which I really doubt even has a 9:16/widescreen aspect ratio option.
The first 4 or 5 clips I captured looked totally normal (3:2). I used the standard NSTC setting for Log and Capture, and didn't change anything, ever. I then captured about 20 more clips, making for maybe 1.3 G total of media.
When I played back the 20 or so clips, they were all at this weird aspect ratio where they were all squished down and letter-boxed. Then I re-captured one of the original 4 that has been 'normal', and it was like that too! I went back to my capture settings, and just as I thought, nothing had changed and everything looked right.
My friend who loaned me the computer said it's probably the computer trying to save space because it's running out of memory, but I just wanted to make sure that's true before I go out and spend money on an external harddrive only to find that that's not even the problem
Re: Mysterious changing aspect ratio by Jeremy Garchow on Sep 30, 2008 at 9:39:35 pm
Mkae sure that the anamorphic button is not clicked in your sequence and that your clips don't have an anamorphic checkbox in the anamorphic column of the browser.
Re: Mysterious changing aspect ratio by Lauren Everett on Oct 1, 2008 at 4:15:34 pm
That worked, thanks so much! I was only looking at the Capture Settings, not the actual clip settings.
I think what happened is that one of the cameras that part of the footage was recorded on must have been set for a different aspect ratio, because I noticed that some of the footage looks squished vertically when it's not anamorphic!
Thanks again!
