• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  16:9 letterbox should be exactly that…yes?

  Posted by Martin Gaxiola on October 22, 2007 at 3:34 am

  I have a pretty basic question but is. I have HDV footage and wanted to present it on a DVD in 4:3 letterbox. When you do this using a workflow of FCS2->-Compressor3-DVDSP4, shouldn’t the end result be the entire 16:9 footage in a letterbox format or will there always be some cropping on the side edges (i.e. the area outside of the title and action area safe zones).

  I was under the impression that when you letterboxed a 16:9 video file to 4:3 letterbox, you still retained the entire 16:9 image without any cropping.

  Thanks!

  Mac Pro dual-quad Xeons, 8GB RAM, 1 – 500GB HD, 1 – 750GB HD,
  Mac OS X, Dual – 23″ HD Apple Monitors

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  October 22, 2007 at 3:45 am

  Nope, the cropping around the edges on a TV, is caused by the TV itself. What you loose is usually minimal though most people will never even notice. Even on a wide screen TV there is a little bit lost on the edges.

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