Squashed footage from capturing MiniDV in FCP 7

Howdy!

I'm capturing miniDV footage through FCP 7's log and capture tool with capture settings at DV NTSC 48KHZ. The result is a vertically squeezed image making the subjects appear fat. Upon unchecking anamorphic in the sequence settings the image over corrects and bares a slight horizontal squeeze making the subjects appear thin. The quicktime's created in capture scratch are 853X480 when they ought to be 720X480.

How do I tell FCP 7 to stop adding pixels? I've tried everything.



In this image: the top left video is the captured video from within FCP. The bottom left is with that same video with anamorphic unchecked in sequence settings. The image to the right is the way it should look and is from the currently capturing window.

Thanks for the reply.

The footage was shot on a JVC DV5000. The 2 choices for aspect ratio were 4:3 or Letterbox. This footage was shot letterbox.

The easy set-up was... Format: NTSC, Rate: 29.97, Use: DV NTSC

The 2nd easy set-up tried was... Format: all formats, Rate: all rates, Use: Custom Setup

Neither of which worked.

Here are the automatic sequence settings that result from dropping the unaltered and captured footage onto a new sequence. This leaves the video vertically squashed with characters appearing fat.

As in the first image, unchecking the anamorphic almost corrects it but gives me the video that is horizontally squeezed making characters appear skinny.

I just need to capture the footage from the miniDV correctly and accurately as quicktimes with the correct aspect ratio so the image is not distorted in anyway. That would mean keeping the letterbox.

I am 100% certain easy setup is correct but FCP is still capturing the miniDV's 4:3 image as anamorphic. How do I tell FCP not to capture it this way?

Back in 2005 when I shot this footage I captured into FCP 4 just fine. But now, with FCP 7 it is doing this. Even my experienced tech guy is perplexed.

Thanks Michael I appreciate your responses.

Here is my easy setup:



As you can see the settings are correct yet the quicktimes captured are still anamorphic. I'm looking for away to capture them correctly as 4:3 quicktime files.

Thanks again Michael.

I have tried every combination that I know of.

Here is my current capture preset editor settings:



I have tried these aspect ratio options (NTSC 4:3 and both NTSC CCIR options) and still getting the same thing:



I have kept the anamorphic box unchecked as well.

What am I missing?