[John Graves]

Yeah, that had occurred to me, Jeff. I have looked about for where a field reversal may occur, but I can’t find anything out of place or out of the ordinary. I see no setting in my Mitsubishi HD TV for field reversal. The Mitsu must be functioning in interlace mode when there’s S video coming into it, I would imagine.

Ah, i see here that Aftereffects render settings is set to “field render off”. I think I will choose the “upper field first” option instead, try that see how it looks.

~ John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

Yeah, it works for me. Fantastic technique, thanks. :o)

~ John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

Great question, Peter. Certainly of interest to many. If you are working on your own and don’t interface with other editors or take over other projects, it is an objective decision. But you have to ask what system are industry colleagues in your region working on and how likely that a project would be swapped between you.

thx

~John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

Yes, Patrice, I know about that. Stills duration preference to 1 frame didn’t help. Each loaded still was at least 10-15x long.

~ John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

OK, I solved my problem more or less. Parenting was causing a problem with the mask position. Also, I’m using an earlier version of AE and I need to pre compose my text layer for the mask to work.

thx

~ J

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

Thank you.

~ John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

OK, here’s the blow by blow, folks. I found another DVD player (samsung)lying around the house of somewhat later vintage, and as I connect it to my Igniter card via S video input, BEHOLD there is no imposed letterboxing. Hallelujah. FCP seems to be capturing the 4:3 squeezed frame correctly and then displaying it in Final Cut Pro’s canvas unsqueezed. yay!

On playback to my HD monitor from FCP, I have to specify “480i standard” as the playback format. (not 480i narrow) My bluray player and the HDMI interface normally set all the aspect ratios automatically, so I never have to worry about that. An anamorphic bit tells the monitor what to do.

But with an S video cable coming out of my Igniter video card to the HD monitor, the HD monitor has no way to sense that the image needs to be unsqueezed, thus the HD monitor has to be set manually. Although in theory i suppose an anamorphic setting could be transmitted in the vertical blanking interval. I should be so lucky.

Now my next task is to bring this this anamorphic test through to DVD studio pro to author an anamorphic DVD. Sorry, this is new territory to me, folks. Probably not to most of you.

~ J

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

I think I’ve identified a source of my problem. The DVD player I am using (from the year 2004, a pioneer unit) to play back anamorphic DVDs into FCP via S video cable — the DVD player itself is NOT playing back anamorphic DVDs properly. It always outputs in a lower rez, letterboxed format. Argh! Meanwhile my blue ray player always outputs to the monitor in anamorphic DVD, but it has no S video output that I can use to test into my Igniter card with FCP…For obvious reasons — namely copy and clone protection. Nevertheless, this all seems to imply that in order to even test-record an anamorphic DVD into FCP, I must buy yet ANOTHER DVD player of a later vintage.

I’m not interested in copying commercial DVDs! I just want to test FCP and make ready for an anamorphic project I have been asked to do.

~ John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

hmmmm. Thanks for your response, Jerry. Please read the following from Wikipedia. I use and rent anamorphic DVD’s all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_DVD#DVD_Video

An anamorphic DVD plays on an HD screen with no letterboxing (except maybe black bars at the TOP and BOTTOM), honoring the true aspect ratio of the film, whether is be Cinemascope, vistavision, 70mm, super 16, etc, 1:85, 2:35 aspect ratios.

~John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer

[John Graves]

I have solved this problem by changing the sound file type. I went back to protools and generated the sound file as a Quicktime .mov file…..which seems logical since a .mov file IS a quicktime file. We removed the wav file and put in a mov sound file instead. The problem has totally cleared up and the waveform in the display even looks better.

Thanks for your support, Walter.

John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-anonymous gamer