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Anamorphic effect without squeeze
For years I have been using FCP to edit. Once I moved over to Adobe, I noticed that I can’t quite get this same effect that I was able to pull of in FCP. In order to get a letter-boxed look and not have to crop my frame : I would make my FCP sequence anamorphic, which stretches out everything. Then I would place that stretched out sequence inside a non-anamorphic sequence and everything would balance back out, and I’d get my black bars without having to crop my frame.
Here’s a low res screen shot:
While I did notice a small loss in quality, I still prefer this over frame cropping.
I can’t seem to find a way to make Adobe Premiere do the same thing though! -
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Hi Devin,
Please share the following: Source video format and project preset used, and what size do you want the final output to be? Too much guesswork, we don’t know what you are working with. Are you starting with 16:9 and want it to look like 2:35 cinema or what?
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
Source video : 16:9 1280×720. I’m not sure about the cinema aspect ratio that I got from doing this effect in FCP, basically I was just happy to get a letterboxed look without cropping my frame and I’m trying to duplicate this in Adobe Premiere.
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If you really want to make your video look wider without cropping then the easiest would be to nest your finished sequence in another sequence, go to the motion settings of the nested sequence, unlock the aspect ratio lock and decrease the vertical percentage.
This will squish the video exactly as you were doing in FCP, though without a generation loss from rendering.
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Thank you! this seems to do the trick without making the frame looked squished
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