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Weird alignment in 4:3 SD
I am making instructional video. This particular video is supposed to be a book review of our intro study. After I get the rendering right, I need to upload it to Amazon.com in 4:3, 99MB or less, .flv. (Amazon won’t take H.264). But right now there is a rendering issue.
Because of the Media Generators bug, I am using Photoshop to make titles. I also made a translucent yellow box for a ‘highlighter’ of sorts, which I resize over the area of text that I need highlighted with Track Motion. Because each ‘highliter’ needs different placement, this ends up giving me a lot of tracks (36).
Everything came out nice (and properly aligned) when I rendered as Sony AVC, 16:9 Widescreen HD 30p. However, some sites (and some viewers) want 4:3 SD, so I also rendered as Sony AVC, 4:3, but this caused the ‘hiliter’ and some of the secondary titling to come out misaligned. This is most obvious starting at about 6:26 on the YouTube SD upload.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hDZWqWyoKk
Why would everything render fine in 16:9, and then be misaligned in 4:3? And what is my best option: just render 16:9 with a much lower bitrate, and then accept the letterboxing (because it will be letterboxed anyway, since my project settings are 16:9)?
Also, does anyone have any suggestions or comments to improve the overall quality of the video? I am new to video, so I know my work can stand a lot of improvement. I already know I hate the green shirt, because it is just too dark. It makes my face look over-exposed. But any constructive comments as far as background, lighting, camera placement, etcetera would be more than welcome.
Thank you.
Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
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2 Replies
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There are to wayes of making 4:3 out of 16:9.
Prosject property 4:3 will give you letterbox.
Project property 4:3, pan/crop – right click – match output will crop to 4:3.
odd magne nilsen
newbie
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You could try doing a 4:3 render of a “nested” version of your 16:9 project. I find that this keeps things proportionately repositioned, though you will end up with a letterbox.
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