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vx1000-century16x9-premiere workflow…is this correct?
Hello everyone,
Am I understanding this correctly?
First, the rectangular shape of the Century 16X9 lens is attached to the vx1000 vertically where the rectangle looks like a door opposed to horizontally as on Hi Def cameras. Am I right on this?
The resulting video is a squeezed 4×3.
Then in premiere 1.5…I set the project to dv ntsc widescreen 16×9. I then select interpret footage and then under pixel aspect ratio select conform to d/dv ntsc widescreen 16×9 (1.2). Correct?
The resulting video renders out nicely, correctly filling premiere’s monitor and a HDTV monitor with what appears to be the correct aspect ratio.
Can someone tell me if this is the correct workflow? When I look at the rendered clip’s preferences it lists the frame size of 720×480 and not for example 1280×720
Thanks,
Paul -
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[paul bolden] “it lists the frame size of 720×480 and not for example 1280×720”
Widescreen NTSC SD is 720×480 with anamorphic PAR of 1.2, the square pixel count for wide screen is approx 860×480 usually in displays or some camcorder imaging chips which is DSPed to the anamorphic 720×480, 1280×720 is HD -
Thanks Brian, I think I finally get it. The anamorphic image 16×9 (1.2) is actually compressed into a 4×3 .9 aspect ratio normal for dv ntsc and this is why the images look squashed on a 4×3 timeline. When the clip is placed on a 16×9 timeline the image expands from a .9 to a 1.2 aspect ratio providing a correctly proportioned widescreen experience.
Thanks,
Paul Bolden -
You got it, thats why the long axis is vertical on a anamorphic lens, its distorting the wide image to fit on the SD PAR
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