How do I adjust my transition settings to compensate for widescreen footage?

[Sada]

I’m not sure if I get what you are trying to acheive—you shoot 16:9 but you want to see the letter box?–The only way you are going to do that is by playing back on a TV that 4:3—then it would show the letterbox—The other way would be to created a letterbox frame on video track one, but that kind of defeats the purpose of 16:9–

[Rick Antonio]

Hmm, I knew this was gunna be a tough one to explain….

OK, download the video clip if you haven’t already….

As you can see, the video footage is shot in 16:9, which shows black borders on top and bottom (just as if you were playing a WideScreen DVD on a 4:3 TV)

At 0:30 seconds into the clip, you’ll see a soft flash transition that takes over the entire screen…

What I want is it to take up the 16:9 area only, not the black borders…

Again, just as if you were watching a WideScreen DVD on a 4:3 set, everything being showing in the movie will only take up that part of the screen and not show over the borders….

cheers

Rick

[Edward Troxel]

Create a new track above all other tracks. Put your mask on that track. That will cover up any part of the transition that goes into the outer area.

Edward Troxel

[Dan Achatz]

If you are shooting letter box, then you’ll need to set you video to 4:3. Then you’ll need to stretch the picture so that it’s tall and skinny, eliminating the letter box. If you are shooting actual 16 x 9 then skip this step.

If you render it out as a 16:9 widescreen MPEG for DVD, it will make all the transitions 16:9. When you go into DVDA, make your project setting 16:9 Widescreen. You will be making a 16:9 DVD. When you play the DVD in a standard DVD player, it will automatically letter box the 16:9 image for a 4:3 set or you can set it for a 16:9 Screen in the menus.

If you are rendering for the web, you need to set you windows media-real media-QuickTime settings to reflect a 16:9 Image. So you might want to try rendering you clip by choosing custom size and entering say 450 x 283. This will render out you video with out the letter box.

See the QuickTime (16:9) links on this page, Windows Media are 4:3

https://www.absolutedigi.com/mini35videopage.htm

See the DSL or Cable videos on this page.

https://www.avgtrans.com/

If you are just printing back to the camera, then there is not much you can do.

Dan

[Terje A. bergesen]

Why not just edit in 16:9? Why edit in 4:3 and add the borders? If you edit in 16:9 the transitions will be on the video only and (if you distribute on DVD) the DVD player will add the black borders on 4:3 TVs.

If you are not distributing on DVD I see no reason to edit in 4:3 either.

[Rick Antonio]

That’s exactly what I want to do….

How do i go about editing in 16:9?

Where are the settings for this?

Rick

[Dan Achatz]

Go to file, and properties. In templete choose the size project you want.

[Terje A. bergesen]

Two ways, depeding… When you chose a new project (File -> New…) the dialog allows you to set the pixel aspec ratio, set it to 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen) or 1.4568 (PAL DV Widescreen) depending on your DV camcorder.

If you have started a project already, go to File -> Properties, the same dialog comes up, select the appropriate aspect ratio.