-
Mixing formats in timeline
Hey guys and girls,
I loaded some footage shot with my DVCAM DSR500, shot in 16:9 and loaded it into FCP 6 as anamorphic just like I always do. I then loaded some footage shot on DVX100 in 16:9 mode. I loaded it using the anamorphic setting as well. My DVCAM looks fine but the DVX100 footage was stretched badly and letter boxed. I decided to re load the DVX footage in 4:3 mode and now I have a 4:3 frame with a nicely letter boxed 16:9 image. I have deduced that the DVX is native 4:3 and letter boxes to get the 16:9 image but is there any way for me to get these two formats to look the same? Letter boxed or not I would just like them to look the same.
Thanks,
Tom
New editor, Imac, OSX 10.4.11, 3 gigs ram 320 gigs system dr., no external -
1 Reply
-
I’m dealing with the EXACT same issue on an earlier thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/983161
DVX100A is 4×3 letterbox. DSR500 is anamorphic. My footage was shot with the exact same cameras. You can simply capture the DSR500 footage as anamorphic. Capture the DVX100A footage as 4×3. Make sure your sequence timeline is 4×3. It will accept the DVX footage looking letterboxed and it will automatically letterbox the anamorphic footage so it is displayed properly in a 4×3 project. The masking might be slightly off, but you can scale that to match.
My problem is that I need my sequence timeline and my final project to be anamorphic, and it sounds like I can’t make the letterboxed footage display properly in an anamorphic project.
Oh well… Good luck!
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up