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What’s with 16×9 in Avid?
So when you want 16:9 in avid, you just right click on the source monitor and check the 16:9 option. It then resizes the window to scale the height down.
if you have 4:3 footage in the source it just squishes it and to get it unsquished you can put a resize filter on it.
To me the footage looks fine. Not stretched really. Am i correct?
Does avid allow you to make 4:3 footage into 16:9 that easy?? Because in After effects and Final Cut Pro, 4:3 footage needs to be scaled up 30% to fit the frame, and it pixelates.
I don’t understand why avid is different. Can someone tell me what i am missing here?
I ask because I have 4:3 footage and am thinikkng i should just resize it in avid and export it so I can use it in a 16:9 comp in After Effects.
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In standard def, 16:9 is done by the display device. If you want to intercut 4:3 in a 16:9 timeline, then you need resize it by cropping. Go to the reformat effect and drop a preset or better yet, the reformat effect. Select source and target and you have a nice easy pan & scan tool to define the region of the image for output.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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I spend a lot of time doing DV25 in both Avid and FCP doing this and hands down the scaling in Avid using Reformat effects is of a higher quality than what I get in Final Cut Studio.
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yeah but can i just resize the clip to 130 height and export it to use in a 16:9 project?
Motion Graphics Artist and Non-Linear Editor
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Of course you can. If you have any time to do a test out to your production monitor, try a resize (make sure to press the HQ button for optimal scaling) and then try a reformat. Then play them out to your monitor one after the other to see what looks best to you. Whichever effect you choose can then be dragged to a bin and applied en masse to all the other 4:3s in your sequence.
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