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Centre Cut from Widescreen
Hello there,
I have to edit a whack of projects in both widescreen anamorphic as well as 4:3 centre cut. As time does not allow me to edit everything twice (and, quite frankly, I just don’t want to), I’d like to bring the QT of the widescreen edit into a 4:3 project.
Everything looks hunky-dory until I try to ‘make movie’ or ‘adobe encoder’. The end result of both of these endevours is horizontally squashed.
Furthermore, if I bring in the resulting squashed QT’s back on the timeline, they look fine. But just as stand alone QT’s, they’re squashed.
The inconsistency boggles my mind. Can someone please explain it all to me?
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6 Replies
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Quicktime requires that you use square pixels. What frame size are you exporting to Quicktime?
Steven
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Thanks for helping out! We’re exporting the QT’s at 720×486.
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You must render out the clip in sq pixel widescreen ie:
Original clip 720×486 with 1.2 anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio. It falls off the sides.
Rendered out to 864×486 with 1.0 sq pixel aspect ratio will render out a scaled 16:9 (using motion to squash a widescreen image into the frame) to fit 4:3 inside the pillar boxed (black sides) frame. You need to keep it falling off the sides and export it again at the 864×486 sq pxl ratio.
That will come out as full widescreen.
PPro knows the frame is being streched to the extra width 864 Vs 720 and reads whats there on export so a 4:3 shape will be pillar boxed because its blank outside the 4:3 frame.
You’re question doesn’t make clear what you have and what you want so I hope I guessed correctly.For 16:9 watching on QT.
1. Keep the 1.2 aspect ratio spilling the image outside the 4:3 screen.
2. Export QT with 864×486 sq pxl ratio.For 4:3 Zoomed in version on QT.
1. Keep the 1.2 aspect ratio spilling outside the 4:3 screen
2. Export QT with 720×486 0.9 DV aspect ratio
– JonHow many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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That’s wonderful! Thanks so much!
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hi,
though my problem does not exactly relate to the one mentioned here but still..
i imported a 16:9 footage on Premier Pro 2.0, but my settings while importing were for 4:3.
however my rushes are looking fine (no stretching, no side bars)
i started a project with settings for widescreen 16:9.
it asks me to render every clip on the timeline also it has black bars on the sides.(and ofcourse top and left)
how do i remove these black bars on the sides without distorting the image.
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I don’t know if your footage is 16:9 Anamorphic meaning it looks 4:3 and is then needed to use another aspect ratio to stretch out to widescreen. DV and HDV 1080 and DVCPROHD require this setting to be changed.
Select all the clips that need the new aspect ratio right click on them and select “Interpret Footage”. Change the Aspect ratio the widscreen version DV PAL/NTSC HD Anamorphic…
They will all update in the timeline/s these clips are used.
– Jon 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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