True Anamorphic

[Gary Kleiner]

I don’t know how you would get anamorphic using pan/crop. Are you really referring to anamorphic when you mean letterbox or widescreen?
Are you shooting anamorphic? 16:9? 4:3? need more info.

Gary Kleiner

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[Randall Raymond]

[TR 16MM] “Is there a way to get true anamorphic in vegas other than pan crop?”

To get anamorphic, you have to shoot anamorphic – which is basically a 4×3 picture stretched to 16×9 in post – you lose resolution.

A cropped 4×3 picture to 16×9 is letterboxed – you don’t lose resolution – you lose a portion of the picture.

HD footage doesn’t need to be cropped – it’s 16×9 to begin with – but it would still be letterboxed for a DVD which means a resolution loss because you have to go down to SD. (An HDTV Can zoom in on the letterbox to fill its 16×9 screen)

DVD’s are standard definition 4×3 – so the above are your choices for ‘widescreen’ which DVDs can only fake.