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    35mm Anamorphic Trailer from 16:9 SD uncompressed source

    Posted by Nikhil Kamkolkar on October 12, 2006 at 4:18 pm

    Hi,

    I have to create a 35mm anamorphic trailer from Anamorphic 16:9 SD 10-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 source material. Here’s the workflow I’m considering.

    PHASE 1 – GET 24FPS SD MATERIAL
    1. Edit in FCP in a 29.97 FPS sequence using the SD material and get it to a rough stage where I know I have all the material I need.

    2. Export a reference QT from FCP

    3. Import this QT into AE and do an inverse telecine – since sequence is edited and there’s black in between clips – the cadence will be all over the place. I’m hoping AE 7.0 will be able to identify the changing cadence and then do the inverse telecine leaving me with a 24FPS version of the source QT.

    PHASE 2 – EDIT 24FPS SD TRAILER
    4. Bring back inverse telecine’d reference QT into a 23.98 FPS Anamorphic SD sequence in FCP, bring in audio as well (it should be in sync…?)

    5. Do a fine edit – leaving gaps for effects / text animation to be done in AE.

    PHASE 3 – FINISH 24FPS 2.35 ASPECT RATIO TRAILER IN AE
    6. Now export this QT into AE into a composition that will be for 2.35 aspect ratio (theatrical anamorphic)

    7. The sequence will not fill up the frame – and I don’t want to stretch the SD image – so add a background, add effects/text, and then export it as a 24FPS Image file sequence to deliver to lab to shoot out to 35mm film.

    The assumption is that the audio will stay in sync through all of this, and I can just export the audio track for using in the optical soundtrack.

    Any thoughts or feedback – which of the above steps are possible/not possible? Any caveats? A better way to do this?

    Can I use AE with the Algolith suite perhaps to do this in a better way? Any other software recommendation that’d make this all go smoothly?

    Thanks,
    Nikhil Kamkolkar
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    Blog: https://www.IndianRising.com

    Nikhil Kamkolkar replied 19 years, 10 months ago 11,232 Members · 1 Reply
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