Here are your choices: 1) Use a 16:9 sequence and decide what portion of your 4:3 footage you're going to show, full-screen. 2) Use a 16:9 sequence and use your whole frames of 4:3 footage with black bars on either side. 3) Use a 4:3 sequence and decide what portion of your 16:9 footage you're going to show, full screen. 4) Use a 4:3 sequence and use your whole frames of 16:9 footage with black bars on the top and bottom.
Alternatively, you could do what televisions do and use a 16:9 sequence and stretch your 4:3 footage horizontally to reach the edges of the frame. That's what happened when you go into sports bars and the players look "fat" on the screen. I don't recommend that AT ALL, but it *is* an option. Bill BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ron Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like some advice as to how to work with 4:3 and 16:9 in the same > project on FCP. > > All of our old stuff is 4:3 our new stuff is 16:9. > > Our blip player is embedded at 16:9, and cropped real tight to keep > it very neat and clean looking: http://k9disc.com for an example. > > So, I started a project in FCP. I changed the settings to regular > NTSC in Log and Capture, but did not set the project settings in the > A/V tab under the FCP menu. > > So, my footage was 4:3 but the sequence was 16:9. > > I'm waiting on an encode right now of a 16:9 aspect ratio letterboxed > if necessary. > > I have 2 16:9 clips in the movie, our standard intro and outro. > > So... > Is it going to work? > > How can I plan for this in the future. It's bound to happen again. > > Cheers, > > Ron Watson > http://k9disc.blip.tv > http://k9disc.com > http://discdogradio.com > http://pawsitivevybe.com > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
