change of plan - next meeting 22nd Sep

Hi all

We've had to delay the start of 5th Glorious Year wefcpug due to lack of availability of talent, or at least myself and Richard. The meeting will now be a couple of weeks later, Monday 22nd September, by which time we'll both (plus anyone else who's going to Amsterdam) be able to report back on IBC and the Final Cut World supermeet, or whatever it's called. And you'll be able to share a laugh over the holiday photos.

So see you on Monday 22nd Sept, probably at the Beeb - but keep checking this space for news, reviews and gossip.

Phil

Widescreen playback in Quicktime

Ever come across this problem - you export a self-contained movie which is 16:9, but whenever you view it in Quicktime player, it shows up as 4:3 even though you remembered to keep it anamorphic in the export. And annoyingly (unlike other viewers, eg VLC) you can't change the aspect ratio of the QT player window.

In one sense that problem's gone away with mpeg4 exports, which QT seems to display properly from the outset, but I only just discovered they sneaked an extra feature into QT 7. It's called 'conform aperture' and is accessed through 'Show Movie Properties>Presentation' in the QT player.


The dropdown box, as you can see in the screen grab, gives options not only to display in the correct aspect ratio (Production as opposed to encoded pixels) but also to hide problem edges (from camera cutoff or encoding artefacts). The option is saved with the .mov file, and obviously you need the Pro version of QT to do this. More details in the QT help file.

New Look - serious business

no prizes if you're in the header photo, but caption suggestions are welcome.