D-Beta Question for FCP

[Aaron Neitz]

What’s your source? HD?

you can totally put anamorphic footage on a digibeta. it’s a no brainer. but you need to start with footage that can be made anamorphic

[Chris Borjis]

to add to what AAron said, when you monitor the output, does it fill the screen and require you to press the “16:9” button on your monitor to properly display it?

If so and you can monitor that going through your digibeta deck your all set.

Its highly unusual for a TV station to want an anamorphic unsqueezed version for airing, because its more work for them to letterbox it for playback.

Be sure thats what they really want and not an anamorphic letterbox formatted dub.

[Michael Gissing]

Outputting anamorphic to digi beta is the norm here in Australia. We never deliver letterbox.

There is no such thing as anamorphic letterbox either. You have standard 4:3 , 4:3 letterbox and 16:9 which is actually 4:3 anamorphic (or full height). Digi beta records all of these as a standard def 4:3 pic so it is just a matter of how the FCP sequence is set up as to how that hits the tape.

Check with your broadcaster which aspect they actually want and then set your sequence accordingly

[Chris Borjis]

[Michael G] “There is no such thing as anamorphic letterbox either. You have standard 4:3 , 4:3 letterbox and 16:9 which is actually 4:3 anamorphic (or full height).”

letterbox 4:3 from an anamorphic full height source is what I implied.