Hi there! I've never encountered this before and have searched high and low for a solution and can't find any other case of this happening on the web.
I have material from two Panasonic cameras (Varicam and EVA) with "Clean Aperture" metadata. Specifically, "Clean aperture width: 1 888 pixels" and "Clean aperture height: 1 062 pixels"
I do understand the concept of clean aperture and I would not expect that when linking to clips Media Composer would centre crop to the clean aperture as default behaviour and certainly not without a way of removing the crop. However, that's exactly what it's doing.
Just looking at the clips in Media Composer vs other apps there is a visually obvious crop, and when opening the Frameflex source settings, the Raster dimension read-out is 1888x1062, not 1920x1080.
I can change the destination Image size, but not the source Raster dimension. None of the Reformat options like Stretch, Letterbox, or Center Crop etc make any dfference.
Resolve brings the clips in displaying the full uncropped raster of 1920x1080 (which is what I would expect from every professional video app) and while Premiere does initially only display the clean aperture, it has an interpretation setting that allows you to change this behaviour to instead display the full raster.
I've co-ordinated with the camera department and they have gone through the camera settings and manuals and can find no mention of clean aperture anywhere, so I'm not sure how to fix this from the camera side of things.
The project raster dimension is 1920x1080. The camera original raster dimension is 1920x1080. But Media Composer will only display an 1888x1062 centre crop because of the clean aperture metadata?!
How do I stop Media Composer from applying this erronious 1.67% scale?!