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  Mixed Formats – How to Cut A Reel ??

  Posted by Lisa Rolley on June 22, 2009 at 2:37 pm

  Hey friends!

  I have to cut my friends reel and he has given me a drive with media that varies in format and i am curious to get opinions on best practices.

  This will be mostly just for web & dvd so i am thinking to cut a D1 time line and then crop in compressor to 640×360 for a 16×9 website format which is cool with my friend…SO my question is with all these different formats in varying frame sizes and pixel aspect rations – what is the bet way to go about doing this …i have AE CS4 to conform when needed but ideally i would just have fcp do the scaling for me as much as possible…

  the big concern is like if i take the 720×540 square pixel media and turn all those qt’s in After Effects into D1 my rectangles become squares etc because of the pixel aspect ratios

  The next concern is that all the full frame material with get the top and bottom cut off when i make the final deliverable qt file it will be 640×360.

  any thoughts on hop best to approach cutting something with the varying formats???

  This link shows a grab of the formats in question for this reel project i am cutting:

  https://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww9/citysurfer/test/

  thanks

  Lisa

  Lisa Rolley replied 16 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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