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  New Aspect Ratio = Pan & Scan?

  Posted by Shea Bennett on September 29, 2009 at 12:52 pm

  Hi,

  I’m just doing some adjustment to a film which was shot in 16:9 for a planned 1:85:1 aspect ractio. Now I’ve added the mask in Avid but was wondering how I might be able to move the framing so I can crop certain parts to allow for more head room, etc… I’ve tried the Pan & Scan effect but can’t quite work it out. I thought the position sliders would be what I’m after but they don’t seem to move.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Cheers.

  Ed Cilley replied 16 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Hans Sieber

  October 3, 2009 at 8:38 pm

  Hi Shea,
  not sure if I`m getting it right. If you use the Avid Pan and scan node you can simply adjust the framing of your shot by using the x and y sliders. To see your actual shot you got to change the view mode to target.
  Hope i could be of some minor help.
  Yours sincerely
  Hans
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  Ed Cilley

  October 14, 2009 at 2:02 pm

  [Shea Bennett] “I’ve tried the Pan & Scan effect but can’t quite work it out.”

  That may not be the effect you want to use. If you have the mask applied (1.85 Mask) then the simplest thing to do is to step-into the clip and add a Resize or 3D Warp (if this is HD, click the HQ button in the effects window) before the mask is applied.

  Two ways to do this…
  1- with the video track you want to step into selected (let’s say V1) and the Position Bar parked over the clip, click on the small arrow at the bottom of the timeline that points down. Then add your Resize or 3D Warp and position the clip accordingly. The problem with this process is you can’t see your Mask. That’s why I like …

  2- At the bottom of the timeline click on the Segment Mode (Lift/Overwrite) button. (I’ve remapped this to my keyboard to Shift-X.) When you move your mouse over the timeline your mouse will change to a red arrow. Double-click on your mask and you then add the resize or 3D warp to the opened layer (1.1 in this case). NOW, you can move your image up, down, zoom, whatever you like and see the finished result with the mask. Double-click on the 1.1 layer to add more effect “under” the others. Double-click on the V1 layer to get back to normal. To get out of Segment Mode, click on the TC1 track, click on the red Segment Mode (Lift/Overwrite) button, or use your shortcut key that you have remapped.

  Hope that helps and have fun.
  Ed

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