[MacDV] pixels

[Mark M. Florida]

The short answer to the original question -- don't worry about the 
pixel aspect ratio when importing large images, FCP will take care of 
making your images come out properly during rendering.  Just make sure 
you have enough resolution for your zooming -- if you want to think 
about multiples of a frame size when scanning or preparing them in your 
image editing app, keep it simple and use 720x540 as your base, so if 
you need to zoom in 200%, make your image 1440x1080...

I'm not sure if FCP will still try to scale an image brought in at 
exactly 720x480, but if that's the way you want to work, you should 
work with the image at 720x540, and then the VERY LAST step in 
preparing your image would be to scale it to 720x480.  It will look 
strange in Photoshop (or whatever image editing app you're using), but 
it will look fine when it gets in FCP and hits video.

- Mark

On Feb 22, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Ray Statham wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Can anyone straighten me out with the business of square/nonsquare 
> pixels? I'm doing a short project in FCP which requires me to import 
> still images for zooming and panning, and I'm not sure how to handle 
> it. Do I need to do anything in the scanning stage to prevent 
> distorted images, or does FCP have a way of automatically dealing with 
> this?
>
> Ray