Best 16:9 without anamorphic lens (YAT)

Hi everyone, I'm new here, and I was wondering if using squeeze mode *with* an anamorphic adapter would give a 2.35:1 aspect ratio? How about in-camera letterboxing with an anamorphic adapter... Also, could anyone recommend a good anamorphic adapter that is less expensive than panasonic's? (preferably in the $200-300 range if possible)
 
emoo124u said:
Hi everyone, I'm new here, and I was wondering if using squeeze mode *with* an anamorphic adapter would give a 2.35:1 aspect ratio? How about in-camera letterboxing with an anamorphic adapter... Also, could anyone recommend a good anamorphic adapter that is less expensive than panasonic's? (preferably in the $200-300 range if possible)
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the panasonic adapter is the only anamorphic adapter available for the DVX
 
David Jimerson said:
12:9 = 4:3.

What it does is squeeze a 16:9 image onto a 4:3 imager, and it's recorded as 4:3. You need to unsqueeze it manually in post.
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Do you really need to unsqueeze footage shot with an anamorphic adapter in post? Can't you just import the squished 4:3 footage into a 16:9 project? I think that this unsquishes it perfectly, no?
 
It will look like 4:3 footage to the NLE, but then you can tell the NLE that it is actually 16:9, and that's all you'll need to do. In Premiere/After Effects, this is called "Interpret Footage."
 
2.35:1 aspect ratio can be achieved with the DVX by using squeeze at the same time as the anamorphic adapter. However, I tried this with one of my school's DVX cameras and found that it would be much harder to shoot like that with a DVX than it would with a native 16:9 camera that has a 16:9 LCD. This is mostly because of the DVX's LCD which is designed for 4:3. The 16:9 LCD squish option doesn't help much because it cuts off things too much on the sides. Either way, 4:3 camera or 16:9 camera, you're going to want an external monitor if you are going to film like this.

For an example of what the anamorphic adapter looks like on a 16:9 camera, look for my HV20 and anamorphic adapter thread in the HV20 forum. Unfortunately, there's only two stills, one with the squeezed image and one after it has been unsqueezed to a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. I never went back to get more examples because I've been really busy with school work and my personal life, but I did do part of a project (which got canceled) using the 2.35:1 method with my HV20 and it does work wonderfully.
 
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