Urgent help with anamorphic please

[Jeremy Garchow]

Make a normal 4:3 timeline (no anamorphic), nest your anamorphic timeline into it, and it should letterbox for you. Render and output.

Have fun at the screening.

Jeremy

[Alan Thorburn]

You’ve actually done it right. When it is played back at the festival they should squeeze it back into a 16:9 letterbox shape. This assumes they are playing it back on a 16:9 display system such as LCD, Plasma, projector etc.

You’ll get a better quality picture than creating a 4:3 and adding your own bars.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Alan] “When it is played back at the festival they should squeeze it back into a 16:9 letterbox shape.”

Yeah, that is provided they know what they are doing, have the right equipment, and are helpful. If you get two out of three you are lucky.

Jeremy

[Michael Gissing]

I guess there is a whole generation that doesn’t know what film anamorphic was. It is meant to look squeezed on a 4:3 monitor. The UNsqueeze happens on the monitor or video projection. The sooner we stop throwing away res on 4:3 letterbox the better.

[Peter Carroll]

I think you just may have answered a question for me. Just to clarify, when you should native 16:9, do you loose resolution when you output a rendered 4:3 letterbox sequence?

[Bill Dewald]

[Michael G] “The sooner we stop throwing away res on 4:3 letterbox the better.”

Right, but you can’t count on any given venue to project it right. I’ve been burned on this more often than not. Keep it 4:3 unless you want to risk having tall, skinny people.

[Fuabond]

Thanks to everyone for the response, fortunately they do have the correct projector and everything went fine.
Thanks a lot
Felipe