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Letterbox removal help
Here are the details:
Our department juts got a JVC GY-HM 700 series camera. The picture looks excellent. The two video cards the footage is captured on are eFilm Pro SD cards, each conatins 32 GB of space.
I copy the cards from a Sans Disk media card reader into my computer then import into FCP.
I’d like to get the HD quality video into my projects as much as possible.
Basically, I want to remove the letterboxing off a standard 4:3 DVD.
Suggestions or am I charging up windmills?
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[Kyle Graves] “I’d like to get the HD quality video into my projects as much as possible.
Basically, I want to remove the letterboxing off a standard 4:3 DVD”
What means that, that you want to make a full frame 4×3 DVD?
Just drop your EX-1 footage in a 4×3 sequence.
I don’t agree with David about the quality.
The MPEG-2 of that camera is not HDV.
rafael -
Correct, a full frame $;3 DVD or at least, have the option.
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Are you asking how to fit HD (16:9) video into a Standard Definition (4:3) without letterboxing it? If so, then what you want to do is basically “pan and scan”; you scale the video to fit the vertical size of the 4:3 NTSC image and allow the original imagery to fall off screen to the sides. To correct the composition of the image as best as possible the position of the video image is animated to the left or right to make sure the most important parts of the shot remain on screen.
This is done all the time to fit films to standard video resolution without using letterboxing. But just to be clear because so many people miss this: letterboxing is not cropping into or covering up the image. It’s the empty space left when fitting an entire wide image into a more square frame. So, it’s not about “removing” the letterboxing; it’s about zooming into the original image so it fits the whole screen top to bottom, sacrificing (removing) parts of the image composition on the sides.
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