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16:9 > 4:3
This is the first project I’ve done shot with a native 16:9 camera.
I was planning on giving the client their project (music video) in three formats.
1. 4:3 pan and scanned
2. True 16:9
3. 4:3 letter boxed
I was planning on cutting the music video in Avid, exporting a QT to AE, and then doing the cropping etc, in there. RE-export to avid and print to tape.
Also, can you have both a 4:3 version and a 16:9 version on the same DVD?
Sound good?
any thoughts?
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5 Replies
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check on one of the dvd forums, but i’m pretty sure that you can burn a 16:9 dvd that (based on the dvd player’s settings) will display either 4:3 letter box or 4:3 panascan when displayed on a 4:3 tv.
as far as giving them 3 different renders, that seems fine… work in 16:9 and render that, then import the 16:9 drop it into two different sd 4:3 comps, one will crop the video, then set the other to fit the footage width, which will scale giving it the letterbox appearance, and render those 2 comps.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
[Malcolm Man] “Also, can you have both a 4:3 version and a 16:9 version on the same DVD?”
Yes. The method depends on your DVD Authoring app.
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Thanks for the advice. I’ll look into how to author a multi-format DVD with my app.
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Check with your MPEG2 encoder. There is a flag that is set during the encoding that denotes if the content is 4×3 or 16×9. Your authoring app will pick up on this.
Alternatively, if you don’t need to do any other work in AE, you can use the Avid “Reformat” effect, to letterbox, crop and pan & scan. Just make duplicates of you sequence and drop the effect in to an empty video layer at top most track.
Beats exporting from Avid, exporting again from AE, importing into Avid where it will be converted again…to lay back to tape.Erik
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Yeah. That’s true. Thanks for the advice.
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