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16:9 aspect ratio using Digital Cut
Hi,
this is my problem: I capture 16:9 dv video, edit it and when I export it to tape, it is 4:3 (meaning the people appear too slim:)
I am using MC 2.6 an I have tried Sony Deck DSR-11 and some camcoders…
It is not problem in Avid (I can swich monitor windows to 16:9) but when the tape is played back on LCD TV Screen from tape, it is just 4:3, wherever the tape is played or captured, it appears as 4:3.
Thank for your advice.
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4 Replies
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This is 16:9 Anamorphic. It is the correct way to output proper widescreen video. When displayed on a widescreen TV is should expand properly to fill the screen and be wide.
It can be complicated slightly by the fact that DV supports a widescreen signaling format that is supposed to tell the display device whether the signal is 4:3 or 16:9 Anamorphic. However this flag isn’t usually able to be set by decks and NLEs, only by cameras. Making it slightly useless in practice.
However rest assured that ‘tall and skinny’ in a full frame is actually proper widescreen 16:9 and should look right on a widescreen TV or projector, assuming the TV isn’t set to assume it is a 4:3 video.
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Also, if making DVD, the MPEG2 encoder will set a 16:9 flag that tells the player to display letterbox or not based on the television preferences set in the player.
Michael
(I am following Dylan around this morning. He will know what I mean)
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Michael Phillips
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You are right about the dvd, and thanks a lot about the information about “widescreen flag”. It seems to be truth that decks dont use it:(
One of my clients insist on tapes with 16:9 flag, I usualy solve it by exporting QT reference and recording it in Premiere (where you set the widescreen project and tape is also widescreen)
Thank you for info.
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It is something that can be flagged in the DV stream, so perhaps Avid could implement it on DV output? I don’t know what the complications are in doing so.
Maybe post a feature request on the Avid forums? I’m fairly sure the Avid product engineers keep an eye on that.
The flag is of limited use as no decks I know of do an on-the-fly Aspect Conversion anyway. So I guess it’s only real use is with firewire interfaces which would be pretty much only NLE software.
MichaelP only follows me around becuase I have half-a-day on him timezone-wise.
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