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How do I turn 16:9 to 4:3 the right way?
This may seem like a stupid question but I’m really not sure I am doing the right thing. All my footage I capture is full 16:9 DVCPro50; however I need some of this footage in 4:3, what is the best way to convert this in Final Cut. Surely if I scale my 16:9 footage on a sequence 4:3 this just enlarges the pixels, meaning I will lose resolution?
Please Help
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12 Replies
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Ross,
[Ross Marshall] “Surely if I scale my 16:9 footage on a sequence 4:3 this just enlarges the pixels, meaning I will lose resolution?”
Nope!!! Converting 4×3 to 16×9 enlarges the pixels, going in the other direction involves either cropping or panning and scanning a selected portion of the image. Try your dropping your nested into a 4×3 timneline and see what happens.
DRW
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No… it doesn’t enlarge anything. Just use the Distort tab on the Motion tab in your viewer window. Change the Aspect to 0 and adjust your left and right side to 320 and -320 (I think that is the numbers…). At least that will get you in the ballpark, then adjust from there.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions -
you got two replies that i frankly don’t understand. workflow-wise they are right but of course any kind of cropping and stretching enlarges the pixels and yes, unfortunately you’ll always lose some resolution. it’s not that bad though so just live with it.
/matt
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Check this out and see if it doesn’t answer a few of your questions:
CaptM
ps – if that link didn’t work, go to https://www.proapptips.com/captmench and choose the MultiAspectRatio one.
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Hi There. I have had to convert my 19:9 HDV footage to 4:3 regularly. I create a new sequence in the project. Select the new sequence. Type “command+0” and click on Load sequence. Select a 4:3 format of your choice and cut and paste the desired content into the new sequence. This works if you want or don’t moind a letterbox. I have had good reults with this technique.
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[Matt] “cropping and stretching enlarges the pixels”
Stretching yes, cropping no.
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Nice tutorial Captain.
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If you want a full frame 4:3 center punch go with the method suggested by Wayne. There is no loss of quality using this method. We also use a hardware aspect ratio converter to do this, but the results look identical.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc. -
Hey kafka, this is more and more confusing. Since i know you guys aren’t stupid you just gonna have to explain better. How can you not lose any resolution if you crop out 30 percent of the image? 16:9 material contains exactly the same amount of pixels to begin with…
/matt
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