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Vertical Blurry Bars
Does anyone know how to go about creating blurred vertical bars on a 4:3 SD image; therefore, making it 16:9? In addition, the blurred effect on the bars also mirror the 4:3 picture.
This can be seen often on ESPN HD. When broadcasting a 4:3 they attach these blurred bars creating a 16:9 picture.
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Duplicate the 4:3 image.
Scale it up to around 200%
Blur it using any Blur filter.
Put it behind the original 4:3 image.
Crop off the edges of the 4:3 image to remove the black bars revealing the blurred image underneath.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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I’ve been seeing this a lot lately.
I don’t care for it much but it looks better then
a completely stretched image I suppose. -
[Chris Borjis] “I don’t care for it much but it looks better then
a completely stretched image I suppose.”ESPN and NBC is where I saw it first. PBS does not allow this actually, we have to leave the pillarboxes in place for all 4:3 material upconverted to HD.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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[walter biscardi] “we have to leave the pillarboxes in place for all 4:3 material upconverted to HD.”
I wish they would all just do that.
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