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Create 16:9 from 4:3 ( Yes, I know… ) FCP Plugin ?
Hi All,
We are going to be working on an independent film release which was shot on 4:3 cameras and then had black bars added to create a 16:9 effect. ( Sigh… )
The customers would like this scaled up to genuine 16:9 anamorphic for the film release.
Currently I’m experimenting with VirtualDub & AVISynth, but wondered if there was a really good scaling plugin for FCP that anyone would recommend ?
Thanks for any ideas,
Cheers
Ian
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8 Replies
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What version of FCP? The scaling in v5 is soooo much better than previous versions, that I’d just do it in FCP. If you’ve got a previous version, then you might be better off doing this in AE or Combustion.
Arnie
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Interesting, thanks – we are on 4.5 at the moment. So, unless we get AE we’re stuck until the Universal upgrades become available in March, am I right ?
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The normal technique in FCP (when using a full-frame 4×3 original) is to create a 16×9 anamorphic timeline, drop your sequence in, and scale up until you fill the frame. Using full frame 4×3, that nomally means sacling up 33%. Since you cheated, you may have to scale up slightly more to completely lose you phony letterbox on the top and bottom. The results are actually pretty stunning.
DRW
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Not necessarily. Run a test using the method DRW describes below to a short segment of your timeline. Output as you were planning & check the quality. It may be ‘good enough’, in which case, you’re ‘golden’.
Arnie
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But then you can’t move the clips up or down so you don’t cut off heads etc.
If you have the original sequence, make a duplicate then change the propeties to anamorphic.
Blowup all the clips to 133% (you can paste attributes here) and then watch through, stop when you have to move a clip & if you use the wireframe, hold shift down so you don’t get any X movement and make sure you stop the Y offset at a ‘whole’ number.I think thats it 🙂
Peter
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Peter,
If he’s already letterboxed the whole movie by masking top and bottom one would assume he’s already repositioned every shot, and if not, it would be too late now…
DRW
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David hit the nail – its already been letterboxed by someone else.
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Thanks, but I’m looking for “the best possible without going insane” rather than just “good enough”. One suggestion was to use something like this:
https://www.benvista.com/main/content/content.php?page=ourproducts§ion=photozoompro_1
– which looks like a good option, although I’d need to de-interlace to 50p using FieldsKit or similar, then re-interlace to 50i again.
Any other suggestions ?
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