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Center Cut Protection?
Hey all. Sorry, this is my first experience with this kind of thing so bear with me!
I did a 16×9 HD edit for broadcast. My assumption was I would have to provide two versions. One, the original HD 16×9. And two, an SD version that I could just letterbox.
Now I’m hearing about providing a third “center cut protected” HD version? From what I can tell, this is a full HD 16×9 edit but with all titles, etc. inside a 4×3 title safe range. Is this correct?
What is the purpose of this? And is there a way to see 4×3 title safe on my 1920×1080 sequence?
Just really confused about all this.
Thanks for the help!!!
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That’s so that the show can be seen full frame on an SD television. Many channels still show their SD versions this way.
Arnie
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What version of FCP do you have? FCP 7 has two little notches in the TITLE SAFE guides that indicate 4:3 safe. Any version before that, get ANDY’S GUIDES:
https://web.mac.com/andymees/Free_and_Easy/main/main.html
I use this A LOT. ANd a bunch of other things Andy makes.
Shane
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[James Whittington] “Now I’m hearing about providing a third “center cut protected” HD version? From what I can tell, this is a full HD 16×9 edit but with all titles, etc. inside a 4×3 title safe range. Is this correct?”
Yep, this is pretty standard.
[James Whittington] “What is the purpose of this? And is there a way to see 4×3 title safe on my 1920×1080 sequence?”
FCP 7 now has the proper title safe marks for 4:3 in a 16:9 timeline. We actually made our own as we’ve been doing this for 4 years now and just created it manually in Photoshop.
We use the AJA Kona 3 to do a realtime downconvertion of our HD timeline 4:3 center punch SD on a weekly basis.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thanks for the feedback guys.
I have FC 6.0.6. I tried installing Andy’s Guides but for some reason it won’t work for me. Put it in the right folder, restarted FC…his other plug-ins are working but not “Guides”. I might have to manually create it in photoshop, in which case I determined 1440×1080 is the appropriate size for 4×3. Is this correct?
Just to be clear, the final file I will provide for this will be 1920×1080 HD right? Just everything moved in to fit within a 4×3 guideline?
Thanks!
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[James Whittington] “Just to be clear, the final file I will provide for this will be 1920×1080 HD right? Just everything moved in to fit within a 4×3 guideline?”
What did they ask for? And HD file protected for 4:3 or an SD 4:3 file?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” now in Post.
Creative Cow Forum Host:
Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business & Marketing, Maxx Digital. -
It’s a GENERATOR, like SLUG. Look in VIDEO GENERATORS and then you’ll see ANDY’S GENERATORS.
Mainly for working in HD.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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