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widescreen filter
I’m using the widscreen filter at 1:70:1
To adjust headroom I’m using the ‘Offset’
I’m pretty sure I want to stick with even numbers. But as I click through the numbers, watching my NTSC monitor the frames go -1 blurry, -2 blurry, -3 better, -4 sharp. But when I get down to where I want to go – -26 or so that frame is blurry. -27 is sharp, which is an odd number. I can’t figure it out. I render out a test and -26 is blurry and -27 is sharp.MiniDV, shot at 24PA, — for this project captured at DV NTSC 48kHZ
and the sequence setting the same.Would that have something to do with it?
Should I trust my eye or go by the even numbers?
G4, Dual 1gig, 10.3.8, 1.5 gig Ram, FCP4.5
Thanks,
Richard
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6 Replies
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I’d not worry about it, but just keep looking at the external monitor to make sure you’ve picked the right line to move to.
Jerry
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Trust your eye.
I had a similar experience on an Avid System a while ago.
in that case it wasn’t even consistently odd or even. -
… or get out a calculator 🙂
the widescreen matte offset value is not working in pixels, what its doing is taking the pixel height of your canvas and dividing that value by 100
so if you’re working in DV NTSC then “1” in the offset value would equal “4.8” pixels (and -27 is going to be -129.6)
to ensure an even pixel offset you’d have to work in multiples of 5 … 5 = 24 pixels, 10 = 48 pixels, 15 = 72 pixels etcanyway, the long and the short of it is that the widescreen matte filter isn’t all that great as you can’t easily get accurate control of your offset
and as has already been said, trust your eye (or get out a calculator)there are alternative (free) solutions if you search about … you’re welcome to use my own widescreen matte ‘generator’.
( setting the Size value to 21 is equivalent to 1:70:1 )
cheers
Andy -
sorry … my shoddy embeded html link played havoc with the cow’s built-in formatter
the link for the widescreen plug is https://homepage.mac.com/andymees/Free-and-Easy/FileSharing4.htmlfyi: in the controls for the generator, setting the Size value to 21 is equivalent to a 1:70:1 matte
cheers
Andy -
Andy,
Thanks for responding to my post. I downloaded your widescreen filter. I’ve installed it in my ‘plugin’ folder. It’s not showing up in FCP. Maybe I’m missing something. Thanks for helping.
Richard
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should be found at Effects > Video Generators > Matte > Andy’s Letterbox
hope thats all it is, but if it’s really not showing up there then its possibly some kind of dreaded permissions thing. do a “get info” on the plugin and see if you have read & write permission … not sure why you wouldn’t have but regardless, you should be able to fix it by making yourself the owner
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