Michael Sacci
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When you finish editing your program link your two systems together via SDI (I also use embedded audio).
Lets say the timeline is on the Kona 3 system – set the output SD to SD to V Crop on this system. Then on your LH system set FCP to capture with non-controllable device and with a SD anamorphic codec. Start playing the sequence (with a few seconds of black for the real video starts) hit capture now on the LH (record) system. When done you should have a true anamorphic video clip. This should look a lot better then scaling in FCP, plus it is done in real time.
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AJA cards can capture letterboxed footage as anamorphic but it still has to scale up just like you do in FCP but it does a better job.
The only way to get around scaling is to go to a 4:3 letterbox sequence, which is just a 4:3 timeline and when you drop in the anamorphic footage it will letterbox itself and match the footage shoot as letterbox.
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If I were you I would try one additional step when your project is done. If you edit everything 4:3 letterboxed your footage will match up the best. Then why not try an AJA conversion of the final timeline. If you have two systems (say a Kona and an Io) you can go out the one with a SD to SD conversion using the V Crop and capture this to the other as anamorphic. This will probably do much better than software distort and since both angles have done through the same process it should match up much better.
If you don’t have this type of setup let me know and we can work something out.
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[Kay Nender] “The video asset timecode may not correspond with the timecode specified for the subtitles”
My guess is if you look at the new TC on the PAL video it starts at 00:00:00;00 instead of 01:00:00;00
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Is DVDSP giving you an error?
Did the compressor encode keep relatively the same timecode.
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For Edit to Tape I black the beginning of the tape using the decks internal TC generator. I only black a minute or two and stop when I get past the TC of the bars (or) start of the program. Then I set the deck to reg (still on internal) Then ETT does its thing and starts to record at the in point.
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Flash and Director are the defacto apps for CD projects. Definitely not as cut and dry as DVD Authoring.
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[adam taylor] “He has a 4:3 shot and wants it letterboxed – so all he needs do is stick black bars over the top/bottom of his shot.”
That is exactly what I told him how to do. The is a filter that makes the widescreen letterbox effect to full frame 4:3 video.
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but a letterbox timeline is not a 16:9 timeline, it is a 4:3,
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Actually a letterboxed image is 16:9 video in a 4:3 timeline. The most common viewing of this is how a DVD displays 16:9 footage on a 4:3 TV.
With FCP you get a letterbox image when you drop a anamorphic asset into a 4:3 timeline.
So if you have a 4:3 video you apply a Letterbox mask which will cover up the top and bottom of the image giving you the 16:9 looking image. Under Effects>Matte>Widescreen.