Okay…so I may have spoken to soon. I think I require a bit of clarification, but let me describe what I have tried so far.
1) I duplicated my original sequence, just in case, within my 16:9 formatted project.
2) I added a new video Track V2 and applied a Pan & Scan effect to the entire track. With the effect editor I selected, the source as 16:9 anamorphic and the ouput as 4:3.
3) I adjusted the grid to highlight the best parts of the video (I haven’t chopped the track up specifically for each shot yet)
4) I rendered the effect and it appears to me all that’s occured is that it is now stretched with the material that was within the grid, leading me to this question:
Upon export, if set to NTSC 4:3 QT will the final product appear distorted still?
I created a 2nd duplicate sequence and tried the other method. Under ‘Tools’>>’Video Output Tool’ I changed the ‘Downconvert’ option to ‘Center Cut’and all other options to correspond with a 4:3 format. I then right clicked on the sequence in the browswer window and under ‘Refresh Sequence’>>>’Source Settings’. This produced no visible result in my Record window. Am I missing at step on this on?
Thanks again,
Lindsay