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Question about editing 16:9 DV project
We shot a DV program on our JVC cameras using the 16:9 camera crop.
I’m told we edit this footage in Vegas in 4:3 standard mode rather than widescreen since it makes a double letterbox.
Is there a way to bring up the safe titles overlays for 16:9 in 4:3 mode, or are we approaching this incorrectly?This goes out to broadcast as well as DVD.
hmmm…
Larry
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What aspect do you plan to output the video? 16:9 or 4:3? That will ultimately determine the best way to edit it.
It also depends on what the JVC “16:9 camera crop” mode is doing. If it is shooting 4:3 and adding black bars to the top and bottom then you don’t have 16:9 anything. You have 4:3 with black bars. There is no way to bring up the safe titles overlays for 16:9 because you don’t have 16:9, you have 4:3 with black bars embedded in a 4:3 frame. Just use the 4:3 overlay because that is the real screen aspect. The left and right safe areas will still be accurate and the top and bottom safe areas won’t matter because they are in the black bars.
If the JVC “16:9 camera crop” mode really shoots in 16:9, then you should be using a DV Widescreen project in which case the normal 16:9 title overlay will work just fine.
If someone who knows the camera told you to edit in 4:3 the it’s probably the former. In that case, 4:3 is your only output option without loosing resolution. It’s pretty easy to figure out really. just drop the footage in a 16:9 project and if you have black bars top, bottom, left, and right then you don’t have 16:9 footage. Switch the project to 4:3 and be careful with the black bars if they are part of the video because any FX you apply to the video (like color correcting) will be applied to the black bars as well.
~jr
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