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Making16x9 footage suitable for a Vertical Video Display
I know, shocking title but hear me out!
I am shooting promos for a local gym and I’m shooting in 4k mode and exporting to 1920×1080 however the screens they want to put the videos on are vertical stand displays. Imagine a 16×9 TV flipped sideways.
My question is how do I take the footage I have and reform it to fit in vertical mode without distorting the footage too much? What are my options? And I cant’ reshoot the footage with the camera sideways….
If I exported in the aspect ratio of a vertical video wouldn’t that compress the footage I have in 16×9, squash it together and make it look really weird?
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Yeah no other option if that’s the case. It’s either pan and scan, cropped, black bar/matte, or ugly resize.
Since the source is 4K, can’t you play with resize ? Obviously you sacificing the left/right frame (pan&scan).——————————————
Sorry for the english, not native speaker. -
…Too bad I didn’t think ahead. LOL! I wasn’t told about it until after I had done the filming. Why don’t you keep your judgments to yourself.
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You hadn’t mentioned that you were told this after the fact.
That said, the best way to do this would be to reshoot with the camera oriented 90 degrees off-axis, so the framing is correct. If you can make that case to your client, by all means do.
If they’re not receptive, hopefully they get a nice editing bill.
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