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4:3 footage in a 16×9 timeline
i am doing this “dateline” type thing for a law firm and the death of a 14 year old girl. another guy and i shot all the interviews in 720 with jvc HD cams so everything is 16×9 widescreen… the news footage that the law firm gave me is on dvds. so i am using mpeg streamclip to convert them to QT files. i did a couple different options, but 4:3 is really the only one that looks right. however, when i put that in the timeline of course it has the pillars on each side and everything around it is 16×9… is there a setting that will keep the news coverage from being stretched in widescreen or is it just something i will have to deal with???
thanks a ton man
jared -
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Hi there,
In this type of situation you really only have two choices with how you deal with the 4:3 footage: pillarbox or scale.
FCP is automatically shaping your footage so that it both matches its original aspect ratio and fits with the rest of your timeline. Hence the pillarboxing. If you want to get rid of the black bars, then you’ll have to scale it up.
Personally, I find the default FCP upscaling wanting, for anything more than minor changes. There are a few additional plug-ins out there that use different scaling methods, with the Boris Continuum Complete set being indispensible to my mind.
Alternatively, use it stylistically. Maybe do a small scale combined with a colour look so that it stands out from the rest of your material as a creative choice.
Hope that gives you some ideas,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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Is not really upscaling, just to set back the size to 100%.
The top and low of the picture will be cropped.
You can reposition the picture.
rafael
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