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    Down conversion from HD (720P) to 720X480 letterbox

    Posted by Pierre Tremblay on July 5, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    Hi there,

    I’m finishing a project shot and edited in 720P. I want to export an .m2v in SD (720X480) in letterbox (black bands at the top and bottom) to burn to DVD. My Kona 2 card does it on the fly to my broadcast monitor BUT how can I capture this signal? If I export from my sequence I get either an anamorphic clip or a streched one, no black bars. I’m trying to avoid to sent it to my deck (DVCam-DSR-1500) and recapture it. What is the proper way to finish this??

    Thanks.

    Pierre Tremblay

    FCP 5.1.4
    Kona2
    OSX.4.10

    Pierre Tremblay replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Tom Brooks

    July 5, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    Your answer is in the FCP forum. You can use Compressor to make a DVD that automatically plays full 16:9 on a wide monitor and letterbox on a 4:3 monitor.

  • Tom Brooks

    July 5, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    My terminology was a little loose on that post. Compressor makes the MPEG-2 file. DVD Studio Pro can then use that asset to make a DVD which has the adaptable aspect feature I mentioned.

  • Pierre Tremblay

    July 5, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    Thanks Tom, your answer(s) made sense. I solved the problem with DVD SP.

    Pierre

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