-
Letterboxing the image and 35mm
Dear all,
I’m working on a film shot with frame original aspect ratio 4:3 and I want to change it to widescreen. I found the widescreen video effect and it seems to work fine but the matter is a bit complicated though as the movie is to be 35mm in the end. Besides the simple letterboxing the image, I need to move it up/down (sometimes using curves) so my question is – how these informations can be exported/delivered to film lab? Frankly, I have no idea how the workflow would look like. Any information/hint/advice will be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Pawel -
1 Reply
-
Thank you for reply,
I’m not the author of the film, just his assistant so I didn’t make the decision. The film was shot on 16mm and after that the director/author decided to change the frame aspect ratio but he doesn’t want 16:9 but something between 16:9 and 4:3. Our workflow is like free-improvisation sometimes so I just got used to it.
As I said, the film was shot on 16mm so we have the footage as film transferred by telecine to DV-PAL. As for the frame rate – the original material is 24fps (as it is to be on final 35mm) so we’re working in 24@25 FCP project.Anyway, I think you’re right and simply I have to ask someone from the lab. I just thought I could learn something here.
Thank you
Pawel
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up