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how to pillarbox?
This is one of those things that should be easy, yet I can’t make it happen.
I have a 4:3 movie, video plus a few tracks of text over it. I want to export it as ‘pillarboxed’, meaning I want it to have black bars to the left and right of the movie, so that it can play on a widescreen monitor without getting stretched–make sense?
OK, I figure I just have to open a 16:9 sequence, drop in my 4:3 media, and naturally it will be pillarboxed on export. Not happening. The tracks are flashing between 4:3 and 16:9 in the canvas, even after render. When I export, same thing happens when I play back the exported file. Hmm.
Any thoughts? thanks, US
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replying to my own post–I think I figured out a way to do it–
export as quicktime, reimport into 16:9 sequence–works!
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Steve,
SD 4×3 video will only be stretched on a widescreen monitor if the monitor is set to stretch. If the monitor is set to normal it does exactly what you spent your time doing, i.e. displaying the 4×3 image in the middle of the screen.
Hope this helps???
DavidDavid Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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Ha, ha, ha….
Export it to “Color”… change the project settings (to what you think it should be), render, sent back to FCP, and voila… it will be “wrong”….. 😉
JPO
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Explain that one please, I’m fascinated…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
Oooo, someone not happy with Color? I have Studio 2 sitting on my desk waiting to install, but won’t get to it for 2-3 weeks, as i am booked solid. Quite the quandry…
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