[Peggy Davis]

I had a typo when I wrote 630 x 480. THe screen is
640×480 actual . The DVD will display letterboxed

I will try the mpeg2 for the file .
Thanks.

[Peggy Davis]

Dave,
What you said to do in FCP is pretty much what I thought of doing.
Except if you read the specs, they pretty much say not to do this.

“- For videos, we would like to screen in the aspect ratio of 16×9 (1.78). If your video is 4×3 or 1.66, you can have it

[Peggy Davis]

“Just pull the Digibeta in via SDI though whatever capture card you want (Aurora Pipe, AJA, Decklink etc) and do the finishing title work yourself. ”

Yeah, I don’t have 1) a digibeta deck 2)SDI (Aurora Pipe, AJA, Decklink etc) – just the standard Apple video card.

This is a very low budget project. The reason I’m finishing on Symphony is not bad information. It’s a free Symphony. The titles will look better than anything I can do on my system.

The problem is the requirement to pillarbox. It doesn’t seem like transfer houses here are set up do do anything like it. I’ve sent my specs around and they are scratching their heads. And I’m in Hollywood.

Does this even make sense? Im shrinking my movie down so that it can be blown up to fit a 16.9 screen…

[Peggy Davis]

Im sure I didn’t explain myself enough. Because I don’t see this as simple at all.

I understand that everything gets pillarboxed. However the movie(with a 1.66 matte, btw) is going to be finished and projected from a Digibeta. I don’t want to put titles(150 subtitles not just credits) in FCP because they will look terrible when it gets bumped up to digibeta. Besides, I already have a color corrected TEXTLESS Digibeta.

Im going to have a Digibeta with titles with a 1.66 matte, now I have to do some sort of transfer to pillarbox it?

I understand I could do everything in FCP but the quality is going to suffer. And that would mean getting my color corrected Digibeta back into FCP somehow. You can see how it quickly becomes silly and expensive.