Need To Blow Up 4:3 to 16X9

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SquidLips

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I need a little help: I shot a 90% anamorphic film (with the adaptor lens) and a small percent with the wide angle. I now have everything cut (Final Cut Pro HD) and on the time line so what is the best way to blow up and then crop the 4:3 footage to fit into the 16X9 frame? (right now with the anamorphic timeline and matte, the 4:3 looks like a small box in the center)

Thanks!
 
your best bet is to take the 4:3 footage into the 16:9 sequence. Increase the scale until the width matches. You'll loose off the top and bottom and a smidge of quality, but I don't think you'll notice too much.

Good luck,

CaptM
 
Should I use the Wireframe feature on each take and just pull it to the edge of the screen or is there another way?

Thanks.
 
Sorry to dig up an old thread but I need to do this conversion too to cut some 4x3 footage from another camerman in with 16x9 that I had already shot. I am loosing a fair bit of quality in scaling the 4x3 footage.

I've heard that FCP 4's scaler isn't very good and I beginning to agree, anyone know a better way to do this? Is there a particular scale percentage that gives the best quality? I am using 133% because that is the size at which a squeezed 4x3 shot fills the frame right to the sides.
 
Put all the conversion footage in a 4:3 sequence. Use the widescreen filter at 1.78:1 and adjust the offset as desired. Then go to the motion tab, scale up to 136 and adjust the aspect ratio (under distort) to 36. Export the sequence as a quicktime-movie DV-anamorphic. Import and check on anamorphic under item properties-format (right or control click the footage in the browser for the menu). Et voila...

This way, you can determine wich part of your image is lost. And you get true anamorphic, wich is needed for some tv's to jump to widescreen-mode.

EDIT: hm, scaling works just as nice apperantly. And by using an anamorphic sequence you automaticly output anamorphic obviously. But hey, complicated works to. :)
 
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OliverM said:
Put all the conversion footage in a 4:3 sequence. Use the widescreen filter at 1.78:1 and adjust the offset as desired. Then go to the motion tab, scale up to 136 and adjust the aspect ratio (under distort) to 36. Export the sequence as a quicktime-movie DV-anamorphic. Import and check on anamorphic under item properties-format (right or control click the footage in the browser for the menu). Et voila...

This way, you can determine wich part of your image is lost. And you get true anamorphic, wich is needed for some tv's to jump to widescreen-mode.

EDIT: hm, scaling works just as nice apperantly. And by using an anamorphic sequence you automaticly output anamorphic obviously. But hey, complicated works to. :)
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Thanks. I've decided to just output in 4:3 as there is less 16x9 footage and it converts to 4:3 cleaner than the other way round.

My problem was that the scaler in FCP4 is pretty pants. I'm going to upgrade, but I want to sit it out until NAB first.
 
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