OOPS….. Editing a 720p project… now client wants SD instead… Help?

[Bret Williams]

I’ve never heard of this. Are you sure? I always assumed pan and scan just meant that was the process that made it 4:3. Somebody “pan and scanned” it.

[Jeremy Garchow]

It happens during encoding, and it’s not something that Compressor/FCP can do. Here’s a link to software that will add the information to the MPEG-2 stream as proof of concept.

https://www.pixeltools.com/tech_tip_cablelabs.html

Someone does pan and scan it, but this way, they encode one movie for both 16×9 and 4×3 monitors without a letterbox on 4x3s.

I have not been able to track down much info on this, so everything I know is from my limited internet research. It seems to happen only on super high end encoding/authoring systems.

Jeremy

[Walter Biscardi]

[JeremyG] “I have not been able to track down much info on this, so everything I know is from my limited internet research. It seems to happen only on super high end encoding/authoring systems.”

You can also do pan and scan using Color. It’s a manual process, but you can perform the procedure there as well.

And yes, Pan and Scan is exactly what Jeremy describes, you’re able to pan and scan the 16:9 image into a 4:3 frame and move the framing accordingly.

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[Matthew Abourezk]

Thanks all for the responses…..

One final round of questions then in regard to editing in HD and finishing (DVD) in SD.
This is something I could learn with experimenting but for the sake of my schedule, I will ask….

HD and SD are totally different height and width ratios. What is going to happen when I import my HD ref movie into DVDSP? Black bars at top and bottom? Everyone going to be short and fat?

And finally, if I stay within the safety zones in HD, will I be good to go when I change everything to SD?

Thanks again…

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[Walter Biscardi]

[mabou2] “HD and SD are totally different height and width ratios. What is going to happen when I import my HD ref movie into DVDSP? Black bars at top and bottom? Everyone going to be short and fat?”

If you set it up as a 16:9 widescreen DVD, it will be letterboxed.

[mabou2] “And finally, if I stay within the safety zones in HD, will I be good to go when I change everything to SD?”

If you stay in letterbox, yes.

If you require the project to be 4:3 centerpunched, I’m almost certain Compressor can do this as well when you make the MPEG-2 movies. I’ve not had to do this, but I’m pretty certain you can do this.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Jeremy Garchow]

[walter biscardi] “You can also do pan and scan using Color. It’s a manual process, but you can perform the procedure there as well. “

Then can you export the pan and scan database and put it into DVDSP?

You can do a manual pan and scan in FCP too, but the probelm is that you will have a 4×3 movie. A real pan and scan would allow the enocidng of one anamirphic movie and have it play full frame on either 4×3 OR 16×9 monitors.

Pretty sweet. And you say Color can do this?