Matthew Bradshaw
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No, London. I worked full-time for five for 12 years so have a acquired a fair bit of knowledge about broadcasting specs! I now work for them freelance. If there is anything I can help you with you can email via https://beermattonline.co.uk/contact.html
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I suppose the only proviso is if they want a real 4:3 video. I think this is unlikely but you might want to check with them. No UK broadcaster would want that but if they do I can help you with that.
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Hi again. You are doing the right thing already. Just export (apple e) your sequence and choose imx pal 50 as your setting. You will get what appears to be 4:3 video but is in fact a full height anamorphic video. If you were to bring it back into fcp and check the anamorphic column in the browser it would play happily at the correct aspect ratio. This is how Channel five would want it and I am confident it is how your Dutch clients would want it too. If you want to use compressor instead then there is post here about it. https://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10478602
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I don’t think you want letterboxed. I do a lot of work for Channel five and they have just changed to IMX50. I will just fire up my fcp and get it exactly right. If you were working in an anamorphic timeline you would have a check in the anamorphic column in the browser. This means that even though your video is a 4:3 shape it should be displayed 16:9 as it is anamorphic. Channel five require that you remove this check mark before exporting. I’ll post back in a few mins.
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Hi, I would ask them if they want anamorphic flagged or not. If not then the 4:3 looking box will be fine even if your material is 16:9. Are you in the UK?
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That’s not VITC which extends all the way across the lines (pal lines 19 and 21). The dv aspect ratio answer is the correct one. I would add that having this in the active picture *might* lead to a QC failure at a broadcaster. Also if this video is used in a graphics box for example during an end credit squeeze back then it may be visible. Also if you are watching a 16:9 transmission letterboxed on a 4:3 tv you may see the entire active picture. I have seen these lines many times at home in the UK. Crop scale or add a thin black box on a layer above.
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Go tell us why did you spend 15 times more?
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A perfectly reasonable request if you ask me, you must have caught Shane on a bad day because that “do you know how to edit?” was plain ugly and rude. As to your last point, that is exactly why you can sub-clip during digitizing in Avid, so not only rude but also wrong.
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You could try this … https://www.popcornisland.com/category/final-cut/
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But … what you can do is at the end of your session, highlight all the stills in your timeline and drag them back into the browser which will make new master clips and you will feel virtuous.
Matt.