Answers.Body: <p>This answer assumes that the video that you're editing is already in a 16:9 ratio, otherwise when you export there will be black bars on the sides or above and below your video.</p>
  
  <p>A 16:9 ratio is the standard for HDTV and Full HD. You're probably familiar with the Youtube video qualities - 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, etc. These are all 16:9. Therefore, all you have to do is export in one of these resolutions - 1080p is Full HD and 720p is HD.</p>
  
  <p>For more reading on common aspect ratios, reference this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:9#Common_resolutions" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia page</a>.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks. I'm away from my FCP machine just now but will hopefully be able to have a look later on tonight.
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Answers.Text: Finally got a chance to fire up FCP and noticed it's in the initial project set up requester.
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Body: <p>Apologies for the noob question but I've just started trying to learn FCP and couldn't find the settings to export my movie in 16:9 aspect ratio.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell me the quickest way to go about it?
  (source material has a variety of different aspect ratios)</p>
  
Tags: <final-cut-pro-x><aspect>
Title: Export to wide screen (16:9) from Final Cut pro X
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ThreadText: # Export to wide screen (16:9) from Final Cut pro X
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-08-06)
  
  Apologies for the noob question but I've just started trying to learn FCP and couldn't find the settings to export my movie in 16:9 aspect ratio.
  
  Can anyone tell me the quickest way to go about it?
  (source material has a variety of different aspect ratios)
  
  **Tags:** final-cut-pro-x, aspect
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2013-08-06. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  This answer assumes that the video that you're editing is already in a 16:9 ratio, otherwise when you export there will be black bars on the sides or above and below your video.
  
  A 16:9 ratio is the standard for HDTV and Full HD. You're probably familiar with the Youtube video qualities - 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, etc. These are all 16:9. Therefore, all you have to do is export in one of these resolutions - 1080p is Full HD and 720p is HD.
  
  For more reading on common aspect ratios, reference this [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:9#Common_resolutions).
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks. I'm away from my FCP machine just now but will hopefully be able to have a look later on tonight.  
  > **username_0**: Finally got a chance to fire up FCP and noticed it's in the initial project set up requester.  
  
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