Getting Blackmagic Intensity to display 16:9 on 4:3 monitor & other questions

[Bret Williams]

I would assume that just like matrox, in the blackmagic settings panel, you would set the aspect conversion to either be letterbox or anamorphic. If it doesn’t have this basic capability, it’s not worth the money.

[Rafael Amador]

[Ben Edwards] “I have a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card I have set up for use with FCP. It is connected to a 4:3 monitor. I am mainly working on 16:0 projects and they are coming out stretched to fill whole monitor. I used to use it with Sony Vegas and it put black borders top/bottom so the 16:9 image was not stretched. Is there a way of setting this up on FCP or in Mac Settings?”

To display an NTSC or PAL signal as 16×9, is not a task of FC or the BlackMagic.
There is nothing they can do about
They just put out a 720×480/6 (720×576 PAL) signal were nothing indicates if is 4×3 or 16×9.
Is the monitor who must display that in one or the other fashion.
If your monitor has no Anamorphic option, you are “stretched”.
rafael

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[Bret Williams]

True. I just assumed he was working in some variant of HD when he said 16:9 but 16:9 does actually refer to anamorphic SD, not HD as all HD is 16:9.

[Ben Edwards]

It is SD 16:9 I am working with, what I want to do is for the output signal to put black ‘letterbox’ borders. I will have another look at settings. If I change the settings for Blackmagic in Settings do I need to restart FCP?

This works perfectly OOTB with Sony Vegas so I was hoping it would be possible to get it working in FCP.

Ben