Setting QuickTime clips to anamorphic

Unlike Final Cut Pro 7, In Final Cut Pro X you cannot yet specify that an imported SD Quicktime clip is designed to be shown with anamorphic pixels.

This means some DV clips (stored as 720 pixel wide frames) aren't shown at the correct aspect ratio.

You can fix this by recompressing the movie, but there are a couple of tools that will modify the QuickTime file without recompressing.

You can use QT Edit from Digital Rebellion , or Atom Inspector from Apple.

For instructions on how to use Atom Inspector for this task, visit my blog.


Alex

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I haven't had a problem with this - my old QT movies work fine in Final Cut Pro X. I wrote this up in response to a question on Twitter.