FCPX squashing aspect ratio of iPhone footage

Hi there

Ive created a project of 1280x720p 50 fps



Ive imported into event



1280x720p 50fps .mov

640x480p 30fps .avi

1920x1080p 25fps .mov



footage which all looks fine.



Ive also imported a

960x720p 9.93fps .mov



piece of video footage into my event (Taken on an iPhone 3GS) but the aspect ratio when viewed in the event or added to the project has squashed the aspect ratio of this footage. To be honest I didnt think the iPhone 3GS could record in 720p as it doesnt have hidef video capabilities.



The aspect ratio looks fine when viewed in Quick Time Player but not in FCPX.

Here is the footage displaying properly in QuickTime Player
[img]http://http://www.thiscarbonfootprint.co.uk/FCPX/quick-time-ok.png[/img]

Here it is not displaying properly in FCPX


It must be something to do with setting in FCPX as it displays properly in every other video playback program I use.

Any help?

Thanks

I'll try that again.
Displayed properly in QuickTime

Command-4 to open the Inspector.
Video tab.
At the bottom, the Spacial Conform setting.
Make sure it is set to None.

Its makes no difference what I set Spacial Conform to, it doesnt make any difference on any option.

I don't see any aspect ratios squashed in your screen shots. I'm confused.

You need your eyes tested Ben. The aspect ratio is definitely squashed in those pictures.

I think the iPhone 3GS has a 4:3 aspect ratio (thats what it looks like in your quicktime screen grab anyway).

It would seem like FCPX isn't recognising that aspect ration (it has done that to me before), so just manually squish it (WITH THE TRANSFORM TOOLS) on one shot to about the right aspect - and then copy and paste to the other 3GS clips.

Yeah, I've never seen the images on this site very clearly, and clicking them often gives me smaller images than what are in the actual post. It is the one on going issue I have with this site.

But yes, I see now, it is stretched a tad. Is that in 10.0.6, cause it's supposed to improve this type of thing, from what I understand.

What frame size is a 3GS video?

640x480p 30fps .avi

I have had a few problems with Spacial Conform on older footage. Easily rectified by transforming it yourself.

There is also a new "Anamorphic Override" setting in the Info tab. Not sure if that helps in this case, though.

Hi there

I have managed to solve this issue by doing the following steps.



Open in a free program called MPEG Streamclip

Set Video PID to 4:3

Export to Quick Time

Compression H.264

Quality 100%

Frame Size 640x480

Frame rate 25

(the rest of the settings I left alone)





Thanks for everyones help

Only thing I'd have done different, is transcode it to ProRes and kept all my image quality.