Imported video gets wrong aspect, appears "squished"

[David Jensen]

Hi,

first off: great program! My trouble though is that when I try to import a film from my Samsung HMX-100 it appears squished when I preview or play it in any way.

The file format is some kind of AVCHD (H.264) in an MP4 container (.MP4 files anyway).

I'm really a newbie when it comes to video editing so I'm not exactly sure where the error is. I'll try to attach a small clip of a coffecup.

I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty 32-bit, Openshot 0.9.26, is built with the build-wizard 1.0.6 (option 3 for ffmpeg to get the AVCHD)
/david

[David Jensen (david-lgj)]

Forgot to add that the video in question is filmed in 720/50p and that I have no trouble viewing it in VLC or Totem.
/david

[Helen McCall (wildnfree)]

Hello David,

I have had alook at this, and tried the HDV 720 50p profile, and it does squash it up with the wrong aspect ratio. I suspect this means that your camera is using some sort of anamorphic pixel ratio to compress it further.

I will look at this at the weekend and see if I can write a new MLT project profile to fix this.

Best wishes, Helen