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“Pan and scan” 4×3 from a 16×9 video (not HDV)
This is a theoretical question, as I don’t own a 16×9 camera yet. (I’m looking at the Sony DSR-450.) I’m wondering for a true 16×9 camera, like the Sony DSR-500 or 570, if you shoot in 16×9, can you create an edit that is 4×3, with the left and right info cut off? (not letterboxed.) And to go a step further, on a single DVD, can I put 2 versions of the same short program – one that is “squashed” so it will automatically spread out on a 16×9 TV, and the other version that is 4×3, but missing the left and right “extra” info from the 16×9 original. (I don’t want a letterboxed 4×3 version.) I know that in Encore it asks if you are making a 16×9 DVD or 4×3, but I want BOTH versions via a menu choice on the same DVD. I use Premiere Pro for editing…
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In regards to editing you can definatly do that. When importing 16×9 into a 4×3 project I believe PPro will actually automatically letterbox it, so you will have to adjust later.
I have done the opposite, taken 4×3 into 16×9 and then corrected. A simple scale effect does the trick, very easy to do.
In regards to Encore I am unsure.
In fact it may not even be a part of the DVD spec to allow 4×3 and 16×9 on the same disc, but I could be wrong on that.
Post that question in the Encore or DVD authoring forum.
Martin
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