2:35:1 question.

Staven

Staven

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If I took a 4x3 shot film, then added the Widescreen 2:35:1 "filter" on Final Cut, would it come across as a widescreen show on a big screen or merely a 4x3 show with black bars on the top and bottom?
 
Re: 2:35:1 question.

I think the biggest problem is that you didn't shoot anamorphic either with the squeeze mode or the adapter.

Now you have a 4x3 image which is just cutting off the top and bottom and if you're talking about a widescreen HDTV... you will need to use one of the "4x3 Zoom" modes.

If your final product is DVD, anamorphic (from camera to disc) will yield better quality for this.
 
Re: 2:35:1 question.

Just tagging along with the question...

My short film "Gray Christmas" was shot in 4:3 but masked for 2.35:1...I'm making DVDs soon, and I was wondering if I should stretch the footage to 16:9, and make an anamorphic DVD, or if it would be higher quality to just encode a letterboxed 2.35 DVD.

If it was done in After Effects? If it's gonna be equal quality to a 4:3 letterboxed version, I'd rather enhance it for 16:9, but if there's any quality loss whatsoever I'll forget about it.
 
Re: 2:35:1 question.

If you've already letterboxed it, stretching it will only make it worse. I'd say leave it as a non-anamorphic DVD.
 
Re: 2:35:1 question.

Right on...
But you said if you've already letterboxed it...what If I have the original 4:3 unmasked files still on my computer, sitting in the timeline?

I'd get the same quality loss then as if I stretched the 2.35 Letterboxed footage, no? Or is there a way to miraculously get a higher quality scaling to 16:9 if I use the original footage?
 
Re: 2:35:1 question.

If you were looking at making an anamorphic DVD, you'd use 16:9 footage with a 16:9 letterbox.

My thinking was, if you'd already letterboxed your 4:3 footage to 2.35:1, then you'd have lost a lot of the image that would otherwise be used. But now that I think about it, I'm a dope. All you'd be stretching off would be letterbox stuff anyway.

So... nevermind...
 
Re: 2:35:1 question.

You'll lose quality by stretching the image, because when it gets played on a 4:3 TV it'll be un-stretched again, so for the vast majority of American consumers who only have 4:3 televisions (about 98% of us) we'll be watching a stretched/unstretched version rather than the straight version.
 
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