Capture 16:9 for 4:3 TV

[Todd Beabout]

Your footage is probably anamorphic. You will have to switch your broadcast monitor into 16:9 mode.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Anne-marie]

Tank you for that qick answer Tod

but I have no setting for that on the TV monitor

and actually, the clip look streched too in the FCP Canvas

It become ok when I make it fit for the 4:3 sequence
with the motion tab .

Have you an other idea to keep all the 16:9 clip from the cassette
and put it in a 4:3 sequence ??

L’

[Gunleik Groven]

Sounds like the DV-tape is not anamorphic, but letterboxed.
In that case. you shpuld edit in a standard sequence.

Gunleik

[Mark Maness]

Well, if what you are saying is correct, and you’ve digitized all of your footage (sounds like it was dubbed in letterbox) in the 16×9 format and you want to edit in 4×3. Do you want the footage to be full frame or letterbox? If you want it to be full frame, then use these settings below:

Motion Tab: Distort:

Upper Left: -480 -240
Upper Right: 480 -240
Lower Right: 480 240
Lower Left: -480 240
Aspect Ratio: 0

This will convert all of your 16×9 footage to full frame 4×3. You have tow ways of doing this. One, edit in 16×9 without graphics and create a new timeline that’s 4×3 and drop your 16×9 timeline onto it and use the settings from above. OR, two, you can edit in a 4×3 timeline and drop the motion favorite (the setting from above) onto each and every clip.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Anne-marie]

OK well,
I feel stupid…
that’s my mistake !!

You were right gunleik
In fact they shoot on HD but the DV tape was transfered on 4:3
so I don’t need to edit on an 16:9 sequence…

I just have to do as usual !!

tank’s
anyway your imfo will help me in the futur

ciao

Anne-Marie

L’