• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  16:9 and 4:3 co-existing

  Posted by Sue Lawson on November 25, 2008 at 5:19 am

  Hi all!

  Client is shooting 16:9, but wants to incorporate 4:3 footage into project… the final output (for this particular project) will be 16:9.

  For best results, should I simply make independent clips of the 4:3 footage that I end up using, re-size it via Compressor and then re-import them into my project (in a new timeline)?

  Thanks in advance for the response.

  — Sue

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  David Scott replied 17 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeffrey Venable

  November 25, 2008 at 7:19 am

  you could, but if you’d rather skip steps, 4:3 footage will work in a 16:9 project, you’ll just have to decide if you’d rather have the full image, to which it will be shrunk a little (black on sides) or you could decrease the quality and manually zoom in on the image to fill the whole screen. In either case, I think you’d be adding unneeded steps to recompress.

  Jeff Venable
  -Video + Editing + Photo-
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  Andy Mees

  November 25, 2008 at 9:38 am

  Client is shooting 16:9, but wants to incorporate 4:3 footage into project.

  Sue, is the client shooting HD or Anamorphic SD? If you’re just looking at blowing up a SD 4:3 image to fill an Anamorphic SD 16:9 frame then the result of doing that with a simpl resize in the tmeline, while not perfect, will be likely quite acceptable … but if you are looking at blowing up SD (4:3) to fill an HD 16:9 frame size then thats probably going to look pretty bad and you may want to explore other options. At the high end you’d be wanting to get the footage resized/uprezed at a post house with access to a Teranex or similar high quality hardware device. Alternatively, others have posted of their successes with software solutions such as Instant HD ( from Red Giant Software ).
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  David Scott

  November 25, 2008 at 11:02 am

  HI Sue
  I always set up a 16:9 timeline and then resize the 4:3 footage on it. That way I can pan and scan, and adjust for headroom etc.
  You will notice a definate difference in quality, so it may work giving it a “treatment” and pretenting it should be like that!
  Cheers

  David Scott,
  Senior Editor,
  GOD TV (UK)

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