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anamorphic widescreen to 4×3 letterboxed workflow
I’ve been given NTSC D1 (720×486) footage that is full-height anamorphic widescreen. The project needs to be finished at NTSC D1 (720×486) 4×3, letterboxed (NOT anamorphic). We’re going to be effecting the footage quite heavily with graphics, and combining scanned and vector elements with it… What do you think the best workflow to follow would be (in ae)? So far I’ve been bringing the footage in (which is anamorphically stretched vertically) and scaling it to 75% height, so it looks normal. Is that a good way to work with this footage/highest quality – or is there a different way, maybe with “interpret footage” or something?
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I did the same recently and adjusted the Y scale to 75 as well. Worked great for me.
Chris Smith
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For me, the best way is to make Anamorphic widescren comps in AE and then squish them into 4 x 3 clips just like your footage. Then I edit and create an Anamorphic master and create a letterbox from there (Anamorphic is higher res than letterbox).
So:
Import your clips into AE.
Open Interpert footage and change the Pixel Aspect to 1.2
Make a new comp that is 864×486 SQUARE PIXELS
Your computer monitor will give you a 16:9 image to work with and your broadcast monitor (with the 16:9 button pushed) will give you one too.
When you render out, in Output Module, check “Stretch” and change it to 720×486.
Then bring that into FCP or Avid or whatever and import it as Anamorphic video like your captured clips.Once you finish your edit, export the entire sequence and bring it into AE and then you can lower the scale to make a letterboxed version like you said.
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Thanks everyone for all your help. Looks like 864×486 route is the way to go, so I’m going to try that. Thanks again!
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