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Center cropping anamorphic clips into a 4:3 timeline
I have SD anamorphic clips and need to finish a 4:3 edit. I am dropping them into my timeline and they are either squishing or coming up letter-boxed. To get the proper perspective I’ve had to scale the clips to 134% and set the aspect ratio to -33.33. The footage looks fine but I am concerned about image loss. I am going at this correctly?
Thanks,
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For some reason it looks like that’s how FCP deals with the footage.
It makes sense though because anamorphic really is the same resolution as 4×3. They’re both 720×480. So if you want to cut off some of the edges of the anamorphic, you’re really using something like 480×480 to fit within a 720×480 frame size. So that’s why you would scale the footage to 134 and then squish it by -33.33.
The other option would be to take the footage into Motion or AE and render out a 854×480 clip and then use that. If you use AE, you could nest a widescreen comp into a 4×3 comp and I don’t think AE would scale it to make it would. It would probably look better than the FCP option.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I actually tried to do something similar by exporting one of my clips as 853×480 and dropping it in a 4:3 timeline but I still had to scale up 13%. Thanks for your suggestion, maybe I’ll give Motion a try.
Mike
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