Then I press Command-S to save my precious aspect-ratio adjustment.īeware: As with QT Pro 7.7’s method, QT Pro 7.7.1’s method is not at the most fundamental level. Then I release the mouse’s left button, and after that I release the Shift key. The video’s bottom right-hand corner will magically jump to the place where the sizing-arrow is. ![]() Then, while keeping my finger on the mouse’s left button, I press the Shift key. Without yet pressing Shift, I put the mouse-pointer on the video’s bottom right-hand corner and drag what has now become a diagonally oriented double-headed sizing-arrow to a place that my eyes judge will create the correct aspect ratio. ![]() I’m now pleased to report that I’ve discovered how to do it on my Intel Mac, and compared with my PowerPC’s way it’s only a tiny bit trickier: The other day when I acquired an Intel Mac running OS 10.8.3 and invoked my old QT Pro registration key to unlock QT Pro 7’s Snow Leopard version (ie version 7.7.1, still apparently unchanged since Snow Leopard) I was annoyed to find that I could no longer use precisely my old Shift + drag-corner trick to adjust a video’s aspect ratio, and even those videos whose aspect ratios I adjusted and saved in my PowerPC would open with the old incorrect aspect ratio in my Intel Mac. As well as allowing me to perform several kinds of editing trick and to add many kinds of metadata it has allowed me to correct a video’s aspect ratio by keeping the Shift key pressed while I use the mouse’s left button and the mouse’s single-headed pointer to drag the video’s bottom right-hand corner to the place that seems to my eyes to create the correct aspect ratio. I don’t know whether a discovery I’ve made has been made by somebody who’s already reported it in a likely forum such as Apple Support Communities, but in what I trust is plain English here it is from my experience:įor a few years in my PowerPC Macintosh G4 with OS 10.5.8 I’ve been using the nifty pre-Intel (and therefore pre-Snow-Leopard) paid version of QuickTime 7 called QuickTime 7 Pro, version 7.7. ![]() Luckily, Apple's choice of H.264 video content as its default display standard is one of the few video formats that can be corrected "on the fly." If you have a habitual problem with anamorphic encodings, then I normally recommend users switch to non-anamorphic workflows. In most cases, you would have to re-compress the file to "reset" the display flag or PAR value. And, while fixing a QT 7 display problem is as simple as rescaling the display, anamorphic corrections are more difficult to deal with. The common problem that many users run into today is the employment of workflows that tend to "lose" anamorphic PAR values or anamorphic flags during processing, When this happens, files either display at their encode matrix dimensions or default to a 4:3 (1.33:1) aspect ratio. E.g., a video formatted as 720x480 (853x480) with an embedded "Current Size" setting of 853x480 would play correctly in both QT X and QT 7 players with an aspect ratio of 16:9 (1.78:1). For a file to play correctly in both QT 7 and QT X, both methods displaying the file must be honored. On the other hand, apps like QT X and iMovie '08/'09/'11 use the encoded height dimension of the file and a Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) value or flag to set the display width based on that height. Old media players like QT 7 and GarageBand disply files employing specified scaling dimensions which can be easily modified by a user. Basically you are dealing with two different methods of displaying video with a specific aspect ratio. You will have to be more specific here regarding your problem. ![]() Why on earth do they think DUMBING DOWN is a good idea? What were Apple thinking? It's already bad enough what they did to Final Cut. Quicktime X - I can't BELIEVE I can no longer change the aspect ratio like I could in 6 and 7.
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