creating PAN and SCAN in AE…

[Kevin Camp]

enlarging and key framing should work, however, if you want to blow your footage up, make sure to deinterlace any interlaced foortage.

better would be to get the footage prior to letterboxing so you don’t have to scale up the footage, assuming the original was scaled down to fit 4×3 screen.

[Mrshow555]

the footage was shot in 4:3 letterboxed to 16:9, so I have to blow up either way.

Also, why deinterlace first? The final output will be interlaced anyways? And won’t the conversion back and forth between interlaced, de-interlaced, back to interlaced affect the quality?

[Kevin Camp]

if you blow up interlaced footage, your scan lines will be larger than an actual scan line. this usually produces unfortunate results. you can try a render without de-interlacing, but i don’t think you’ll be happy.

note: ae ram previews are not interlaced, so you’ll need to do a full render.

[Morebo]

[mrshow555] “Also, why deinterlace first? The final output will be interlaced anyways? And won’t the conversion back and forth between interlaced, de-interlaced, back to interlaced affect the quality?”

absolutely… everytime you bring your footage back and forth different apps it will compress.. even if you
do an “uncompressed” render.

morebo

[Mrshow555]

So I’m doing it this way but encountering a problem on the final output. The sposts where I change the horizontal are jarring. It’s on the cuts as I’m adjusting each shot serpately, key framing the horizontal point at the beginning and end of the shot (so it doesn’t tween the point in between the current shot and the next. But there’s a noticable jump on the final output?)