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16:9 back from 4:3
First off, I have only ever used 4:3 DVCAM and 16:9 animophic
I’m working on preparing some footage for the Internet, All the footage will be exported as 16:9 to maintain constancy across the site.
Two Clips came to me ready for me to encode, they are 16:9 1024×576.
However two other clips are giving me issues. I received some of the footage on a DVCAM tape, its 16:9 footage with letter boxing, not animorphic.
I thought I could just capture it, into a new project which is 1024×576 and re size the footage till it filled the screen.
However I find that the footage does not fit, I find that project is too wide. I have managed to mess up the setting still the settings of the sequence fits the footage with no black bars, but then the footage is no longer 16:9.
Maybe I’m being very dumb here and missing something ovibous but the more I read of aspect ratios and re sizing the more confused I get.
Is there a simple way to crop footage back to 16:9 once it it has been letter boxed onto 4:3. I’m going to get a lot more of this and hope to solve this soon.
Cheers
Peter Bonnar -
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You should treat any letterboxed footage as 4:3 because that’s essentially what it is. This way the aspect ratios will work out so you can just zoom the clip up to fill the 16:9 frame.
Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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once 16:9 has been letterboxed, the frame size becomes 4:3. if this is rendered out as a self contained clip, you cant make it 16:9 again.
the picture has been shrunk and distorted, to fit in a 4:3 frame, so putting it back into a 16:9 frame will distort it again, and make it look fat. even if you just increased the scale of the letterboxed pic and ‘un’distorted it, (so the black disapeared at the top and bottom and the picture touched the sides) you will have reduced the quality of your picture by doing so.the only solution i can think of (if you need to use this footage) is to crop the picture size (set up new dimensions in your sequence settings, so the frame size is only as large as the actual picture, ie it does not incorporate the letterboxing).
the final movie that you output, will be 16:9 dimensions, however, it will also be smaller than your 16:9 footage.leterboxing looks great. maybe you should think of incorporating some 4:3 letterboxing if you are going to be receiving files with this frame size?
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