HD capture 1920 x 1080 / 1888 x 1062 size query

Not sure why this is happening, but I seem to remember that quicktime does not always report the correct pixel dimensions. If you open the clip settings for one of these clips in fcp, what are the pixel dimensions?

I noticed same thing today when opening an XDCAM clip in QuickTime player. Don't worry about it, the clip is 1920x1080.

Hey LL928,

i had this same problem, and what it turned out to be was my upgrade to QT 7.1.5!

what is happening is that the resolution is all there (1920x1080) but that QT is diplaying the video @ 1888x1062. this is because of the aperture of the file.

if you open up Quicktime and choose: Window > Show Movie Properties and you select the name of your file, without the checkmark and you finally click on the Presentation tab, you will see that of the five possible check boxes, that they will be all checked off except for the last one: Conform aperture to: and in the drop-down box, Clean will be choosen.

what is basically hapeening is that QT is removing all the blanking information and providing you the equivilant of Video safe!

i have contacted Apple about this, since it seems to be a univeral fuction, and if you deselect "Conform aperture to..." you have to save out yoru file again as a self-contained *.mov.

to be honest, Apple wasnt really helpful and didnt know what i was talking about. this only happened once i updated my QT player also, because on other, non-upgraded boxes, i dont have this problem.

hope that helps some...

Mikey M. 🙂

Now that is interesting, Mikey.
hmm - why would they have done that ?

Anyone have a clue ?
TV, maybe ?

Why would not just play and display at 100% like it's always done - weird.

Going to answer my own questions.

Thought I'd update my pb with whatever was going using Software Update.
QT 7.15 is not there now but 7.16 is.

7.16 now displays 100% - reported as "Classic" in Presentation pane.

Good job.

Give yourself a Solved star and mark this baby answered.

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Got stars aplenty here - anyone want some ?

I don't know if everything is kosher yet with fcp and qt 7.16 ( haven't tested anything).
Curiosity may well yet kill this cat ....