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From 16/9 to 4/3 PAR question
Hello
I’m working on a project that will require me to take Varican DVCPROHD footage, natively shot in 16/9, and deliver as 4/3 in 8bit uncompressed. The footage is shot at 24fps, and I’m assuming I need to deliver at 29.97 since it is for Broadcast.
I have to figure how I will be editing this and also creating my graphics in AE.
In FCP I assume I can edit in the native size, and then drop my sequence in a 4/3 comp in After Effects to crop the sides, but I’m wondering what will happen with the pixels? Won’t they get squeezed in a NTSC PAR?Sorry if this sounds vague, trying to wrap my head around it myself
Alex
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Do you have a Kona card? If you have a Kona card, you can edit in a 24p HD timeline, and monitor a 4×3 SD centercut…in real time. No rendering, going to after effects, manual cropping or anything. It’s also good for color correcting your HD timeline to SD specs in real time as well.
Jeremy
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Nope, but I do have a blackmagic card…Does it have the same functionality?
Also, since I need to create graphics panels in After Effects, I’m wondering what setting I should be using…
Might be a question for the AE forum..Thanks
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Decklink should do the same thing.
And as for AE…1280×720 HD TV is what you are looking for.
Shane
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I am not familiar enough with BM cards to know, but as I understand it some of them do some don’t. I noticed they just had a driver update that included more up and down conversion features.
If you are editing in HD, I’d create your AE graphics in the same size and frame rate as your footage, and then do the down-convert to SD at the end.
Jeremy
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[Shane Ross] “1280×720 HD TV is what you are looking for.”
Yeah, be careful with that as the AE7 preset defaults to a 29.97 frame rate.
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After you drop your footage into the 4:3 Sequence, you can adjust the PAR in your Sequence Settings. There are various HD PAR settings.
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