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Ok, one more time….anamorphic to widescreen….
After reading many posts I believe I’ve found the satisfactory solution. I shot HDV in letterbox squeezed, if my memory is correct. I’m editing in final cut pro and everything looks great but my clips have anamorphic checked. This iDVD produced DVD will be duplicated and distributed to 500 people so does it make sense since I am using iDVD to produce it in letterbox since it sounds like anamorphic is no easy task with this software? Also, I’m sure my clients won’t all have widescreen TVs and my understanding is anamorphic will invariably squeeze an image on an SD TV. Anyway, I distorted the footage to -33 aspect in FCP and I’m happy. Is this the easiest or only way to achieve letterbox? Thanks.
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I don’t understand what you shot… HDV letterboxed? what’s that?
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Sorry, I shot anamorphic but instead of choosing the letterbox option I chose squeeze. Anyway, I think I’ve got it figured out. I’ll try the ‘anamorphiciser’ tool. But if you have other suggestions please let me know. Thanks.
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[Morris Barrier] “Sorry, I shot anamorphic but instead of choosing the letterbox option I chose squeeze.”
“Squeeze” IS anamorphic. That’s what anamorphic does, it squeezes the image horizontally and then you put that into an anamorphic timeline to play out correctly.
Letterbox simply keeps your 16:9 ratio image in a 4:3 frame space by scaling the down the image so you get the “letterbox” top and bottom.
There’s no such thing as “letterbox option for anamorphic.”
These are two completely different shooting formats. If you want to play out your anamorphic footage correctly, select “anamorphic” in the timeline preset and FCP will stretch our your footage horizontally during playback. If you’re viewing the footage on a 4:3 monitor, it will play back letterboxed. If it’s a widescreen monitor, it will fill the screen.
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Hi, I wonder if you could clear something up for me. I’m editing HDV footages, which is a fairly new format for me. I had a note from the camera op apologising for shooting 1 tape in 16:9 squeeze. The rest were shot 16:9 letterbox.
When I compare the two in my timeline, it looks pretty similar. It doesn’t look like I have to resize the 16:9 squeeze footages. Am I missing something here? Will I have problems later on? I hope you can shed some light on this!
Ana
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