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Exporting widescreen from widescreen
My original footage was shot in widescreen (720 x 480) and my sequence settings are the same, but when I place the footage on the sequence, it shrinks down and adds a thick black border around the entire frame so the footage is “floating”.
The aspect ratio is the same for each, so it should look the same. I don’t understand what is happening.
Help!!!!
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5 Replies
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Is the black border top and bottom, or all four sides?
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It is on all four sides. It’s like the sequence shrunk the source video or added extra pixels. It actually look longer than the source video, but they both say that they are 720 x 480.
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Something must have been set wrong while capturing. Did you capture thru firewire or analog? make sure you capture thru firewire, SQUEEZED, will be the right size. When you make a still from the clip and open in Photoshop, what size is the picture and is there a black border?
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Interprete your footage and see what is says?
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From the original post description you may have a DV timeline (sequence) and the clips may have been captured in letterbox 4:3. This would drop the clip into a Widescreen Sequence and appear to have a small image in the middle of a black border.
If you select the clip in the timeline and then select the Motion Propertie in the Effect Control Panel, the clips edges will show up in the Program Monitor. Which will indicate if the clip is bound smaller than the sequence or the letterboxing has occured during capture.
If my guess is correct you will need to recapture and be sure to set the video output to squeeze so the capture window shows a clean full frame widescreen image and not a letterboxed (bars on top/bottom). If this is just the way is was shot, then you will need to edit in 4:3 (Standard) DV and live with the letterboxing or crop it out at the export stage. Cropping will lose quality.
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