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16:9 Scaled for a 4:3 Top of Image Flickers
I have some widescreen 16:9 footage but am working in a 4:3 sequence. So I lay the 16:9 footage down and then just click the “Scale to Frame Size” option and it scales down nicely and is now letterboxed.
When I render and play it though, there is a flicker or wobbly-ness to the top of my images. It seems to randomly go up and down covering my image slightly. Any ideas? It is driving me nuts. Thanks for any help!
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Scale you footage up a tiny bit, put fake black bars over the footage to cover the top and bottom edge up.
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That ain’t a bad work around, but in the case of my footage it won’t work cause the back bar is wobbly-ing so much that it is covering over heads that are in the frame. I’m already losing too much of my image. this shouldn’t be happening in the first place.
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what’s happening is you’re shrinking footage to fit the 4:3 screen that would otherwise be looking fine in its full 16:9 form where the outer edges are set to interlace in the correct pixel grid and would even be trimmed off on a TV.
This grid of pixels in actual footage what was captured in which resolution to what you are cutting in the timeline not perfectly lining up to resulting in the flickering.
Use the earlier suggestion to create an overlaying black bars that crop everything underneath it to shave off the top and bottom 1 or 2 pixels. Or use the flicker removal effect for the clip/s that are causing the most problems. Keep in mind also that a Computer montior will show up things that won’t on a CRT/LCD/Plasma TV due to interlacing and how the PC software deals with it.– Jon 😉
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