How do I tell Final Cut Pro X that my DV PAL Anamorphic video is anamorphic?

Thanks for your fast reply.

But if im already have fotage on a HDD ? how to performe with this matter ?

Besided this will not give me a clue about if there will be an update in this issue .

Brgds E. Asker

Only Apple knows whether being able to change the 'anamorphic flag' will be included as a feature in a future version of FCPX. It's highly frustrating as it would seem trivial to implement.

In the meantime you can alter it manually for every project you create. Once you place your footage in the timeline, select it and use the X-transform tools in the inspector panel to stretch the image horizontally. It requires a render, but it seems to work without any degredation in quality.

In the meantime, we all need to send feedback to Apple about this. Just select the feedback option from the "Final Cut Pro" menu at the top left of your screen.

OK, I think I've found the solution to this.

As mentioned before you can purchase the application "QT Edit" which is part of the "Pro Media Tools" suite. There's a setting in there which enables you to chance the pixel aspect ratio without re-encoding. The latest (beta) version even has a batch processing feature so you can presumably change lots of files at once. Details here: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/

Alternatively, if you want to save $99 you can do the same thing manually using Apple's own "Atom Inspector" application which is free of charge if you sign up for a free Apple Developer Account. It's a bit fiddly, but not difficult to do. Full instructions are on this blog: http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/setting-_qt_aspect_ratio_flags/

However, while both solutions above fix the anamorphic flag in both QuickTime Player X and Final Cut Pro X, they fail to do so in Finder (and it's QuickLook feature - i.e. press the spacebar for a preview) or in QuickTIme Player 7 Pro. So there's one more thing you need to do, and that is go to the Movie Properties window, select the video track and change the Visual Settings so that the scaled size is 1024x576 (for PAL anyway). Note: you'll need to deselect 'Preserve Aspect Radio'. Then just save again.

Phew! Granted, a complete pain, but at least this fixes the problems we've been having.

I am trying to use QT Edit to transform a batch of clips - 5TB to be exact! But am testing it on a single clip first. All of the clips are DVCPROHD - and are showing up squished in FCPX. Instead of going through thousands of clips and transforming the X axis, I need to do this in bulk. I've tried the Quick Tasks in QT Edit on a test clip, and chose "Set Pixel Aspect ratio to NTSC anamorphic" and clicked Perform Task. I can't tell if it made any changes to the actual quicktime movie file. Also to note - the footage is HD, so not sure if that matters or not with this quick task. When pulling the "transformed" clip into FCPX after this action, it is STILL squished. Didn't seem to make a difference. Any advice??

Does anyone have any clues as to how to edit the aspect ratio flag with Atom Inspector and a MOD file? I opened mine up and all I got was this (expanding out the sections):

I'm very happy to report that the FCPX 10.0.6 update has restored the ability to flag video as anamorphic! 😎

Or, as Apple more accurately puts it: "Sometimes the metadata tag specifying 16:9 playback in the video file is missing or set incorrectly. In Final Cut Pro, you can set this tag so that the video plays correctly with a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio."

The swtich is found in the Inspector's settings view. Full details on this page:

https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.6/help/index.html?localePath=English .lproj#ver3363b44e

FANTASTIC!

NOTE: As with the old FCP7, this only changes the aspect ratio of the material when viewed in the Final Cut application. In otherwords, it does not alter the tag in the source file in your 'Final Cut Events' folder. So, if you want to view that file correctly in another application, such as QuickTime Player X, you still have to make the changes using Atom Inspector (or other such software descibed in this thread.)

Brilliant, this worked for me thanks!

By the way, my video was showing up as anamorphic in both MPEG Streamclip and VLC, so it was only FCPX where it got the anamorphic setting wrong (couldn't open in QuickTime Player due to MOD format).

Happy 🙂 just using the Trial version, this may be enough to make me buy!

This is the answer!

See at the bottom of the page:

Final Cut Pro X: Conform frame sizes and frame rates