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full frame to letterbox
other than using the filter widescreen is there another way to make a 4×3 full frame into a letterbox without losing the top and bottom of image
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How can you? You are taking a square image and making it rectangular…you have to lose information somehow. Just like PAN AND SCAN chops off the sides of a widescreen image, to make 4:3 into letterboxed 16:9, you need to chop off the top and bottom.
And this is something you need to plan for.
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That is what letterbox is. You can’t magically invent additional areas of the screen that weren’t captured.
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This reminds me of a time I worked at a camera store and a customer wanted the exact same image in an 8×10 as her 4×6 and I told her it would crop some off the top and bottom, she would not have any of that and said she wanted it to contain the exact same amount of image, I told her to do that it would distort the image or she could have that if she went to a 8×12. She shook her head and said “I thought you guys were professional.”
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thats what this is i just needed proof it could not be done
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when starting a project i decide what my output will be to start with, and go from there. I do a lot of documentaries, and sometimes that means mixing formats. you have to find a way to stylistically make it all work.
pretty much tho, coing from 4×3 to 16×9, you’ll have room to work with the cropping. just dragginthe filter on, won’t do much, you’ll have to play around with it to get the correct frame.
heck, you can basically reframe those shots in your movie to your specifications. its kind of a good thing, sometimes.
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