16:9 and 4:3 co-existing

[Jeffrey Venable]

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-

[Andy Mees]

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 ).

[David Scott]

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)