Final Cut... iPhone photos shot at 16:9 when imported to FCP end up 4:3

"Even when you are taking the photos at a 16:9 aspect ratio, the sensor will record the photo at 4:3 and and the camera.app will just crop the photo. The sensor is 4:3, so the photo will be taken as 4:3 and then cropped.

When I take a 16:9 photo, iCloud Photos will sync it to my Mac as 16:9, but it will show in Photos for Mac as an edited photo, and when I revert it to the original it will be 4:3. I am having the same iPhone model as you and as far as I can tell, t has always been this way, that the camera has just applied a cropping to the 4:3 original. It has been saving us an editing step."

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How post screenshots of the original and the imported image? How are they imported exactly? From where? Are the images squeezed or cropped?

You’re making the color correction where? In Photos?

Try importing locally stored images using the Photos browser in FCP.

Pardon my ignorance, but how are you making 16:9 photos on the iPhone?

I only have a by now old iPhone 7, and I never saw any option to make photos be 16:9.

Or are you cropping the photos in Photos? If that is the case, then it seems that you may be getting the original rather than the edited file.

Credog wrote:

It is a feature in the Camera app with my iPhone 13Pro. One can switch from 4:3 to 16:9 with ease

Thank you.

Neither my iPhone 7 (which can go only up to iOS 15) nor my oldish iPad with iOS 16 offer that option, so it is probably only available in more recent models.

That’s it?

How’d you import from the Photos library exactly?

BTW are you using iCloud Photo Library.

someone else can try to help you. Good night.