[videoblogging] Re: help with streched letterboxed video?

[mjcarrasquillo2002]

Lauren:

So let me understand? You have a 4:3 delivery of 16:9 footage (which
shows bars on top and bottom) and within it there is 4:3 footage being
stretched to 16:9? 

OK, basically it's like this...They need to go into the motion tab (of
the clip) in FCP and change the dimensions of the 4:3 footage itself
to make it look pillar bars in the 16:9 frame. First they should
check to see, if for some reason, the 4:3 footage had the option of
anamorphic checked in the browser by accident. Sometimes this
happens and un-checking this is the answer for it. Otherwise they will
have to manually change the dimensions in the motion tab of the clip
itself!

I added a 4:3 clip into my 16:9 timeline and made that issue happen
and here's what I got...

Anamorphic (in Browser) checked
The clips motion tab settings are:
Basic Motion
 Scale is 112.5%
Distort
  Upper Left  -320 -240
  Upper Right -320 -240
  Lower Right -320 -240
  Lower Left  -320 -240
   Aspect Ratio   -12.5

Within a 16:9 project the 4:3 clip settings SHOULD be:

Anamorphic (in Browser) UN-checked
The clips motion tab settings are:
Basic Motion
 Scale is 100%
Distort
  Upper Left  -320 -240
  Upper Right -320 -240
  Lower Right -320 -240
  Lower Left  -320 -240
   Aspect Ratio   -18.52

With this you should still have a 16:9 deliver on 4:3 (letterboxed)
and your 4:3 footage within the 16:9 frame should be Pillar Boxed.

Please let me know if you didn't understand this. I can address this
in a live session of my newsletter!

That one was free...

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--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Lauren Galanter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 At work today one of our shows was delivered but the video is distorted.
 They did send it as 640x480, but it's letterboxed and the video *within*
 that is streched (too wide--like how video looks with square pixels at
 720x480). Almost a double-letterboxing effect.
 
 I need to figure out what they did wrong to produce this (using FCP)
so I
 can tell them how to export it correctly. Unfortunately I don't know
what it
 was shot in, but I think it was on a pd 150.
 
 I'm kind of at a loss and would appreciate any help. If you think
you might
 know I can send you a screen grab privately.
 
 Thanks!
 
 
 -- 
 Lauren Galanter
 
 www.laurengalanter.com
 www.linkedin.com/in/laureng
 Skype: lgalanter
 610-761-4435
 
 
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Re: [videoblogging] Re: help with streched letterboxed video?

[Brook Hinton]

You also may be getting the double-anamorphic effect that comes from
changing anamorphic settings of a sequence after anamorphic clips are
already in (and other such scenarios where FCP's behavior is based on
relative rather than fixed changes). For this, their solution would be to
manually change the aspect ratio if the clips in the motion tab, match frame
and reedit the clips, or (as long as there isn't any other basic motion
stuff going on) just change one clip and copy-paste basic motion attributes
to the rest.
This doesn't help you now of course - what the people delivering the
material really need to do is edit anamorphic in an anamorphic sequence from
the get go, then if they want letterboxed they can nest it into  into a 4:3
sequence (or deliver 16:9 to you leaving you with all the options).

Brook




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