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1.33 Vertical squeeze
Apologies if this is a common/ or obvious question…
Without fully aware as to why, i’m being asked to ‘crop’ 1080i footage into 4:3, and then to add a 1.33 vertical squeeze. Could you please explain how i could go about this in fcp?
Thanks.
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It doesn’t make much sense to me – crop implies that you have to lose the sides of the picture, then the vertical squeeze implies changing the geometry of the pictures… however, what I think they might mean is putting the 16:9 image in a 4:3 frame in “letter box” style, i.e., with black bars top and bottom. I used to do that occasionally when it was SD 16:9 and the client wanted to view stuff on a PC with an older media player that didn’t recognise stretched pixel aspect ratios, but 1080i is square pixels (so the issue of displaying non-square pixels doesn’t arise) so it’s only a guess.
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My first thought was that they need the final in a low resolution with a widescreen effect but when I read “Crop” and “Squeeze” I fell off my editing chair. Sounds like a messy request. Let us know what happens.
-Greg Baldi
Post Production Editor
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