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Outputing Letterbox from Anamorphic sequence
I’m a newbie to Final Cut. I’m cutting a documentary shot with the Panasonic DVX 100 in 16×9. I’ve captured and edited with DV Anamorphic, but I want to export/print to tape for the client to see it letterboxed on a 4×3 television. Can someone describe a workflow to accomplish this, or do I have to go back and capture again?
Thanks
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Make sure the “anamorphic” flag is checked in your bins for the media, just drop it into a regular DV-NTSC preset sequence and it’ll automatically letterbox.
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Of course, you’ll have to render your whole show first.
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No need to recapture! Heaven forbid…
The simplest thing to do is to render the entire timeline as a single file (or a sequence of them if necessary). This is simply accomplished by using export quicktime.
Open a new sequence and set this to be 4:3 (uncheck anamorphic tab)
Import the previously exported files back into fcp. Open the properties for these files (or file) and check the anamorphic tab. Drop this file(s) into the 4:3 sequences, and it will be letterboxed!
The nice thing about this workflow is the original export is nice and quick (no conversion), and the new letterboxed timeline will run in real time on most modern macs…
Happy outputting!
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[Ben Holmes] “The nice thing about this workflow is the original export is nice and quick (no conversion), and the new letterboxed timeline will run in real time on most modern macs…”
I’d still render it. In my experience, RT output is not always the best quality, even if in Safe RT>High.Kevin Monahan
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