2:40 format ?

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danielisaiah

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So I'm at the end of a project and something is lacking.....and its in the framing. I dont know what it is but I captured one of my frames in 16:9 format and put into photoshop and cropped it to 2:40...or "anamorphic" and looks MUCH better. much more "cinematic". Is there anyway to export something to 2:40 (or faking the look) by throwing some bars on top of my 16:9 footage?

Has anybody ever tied this?

thanks for any replies!!!!
 
You could try the crop effect.. find a setting you like, then apply it to an entire sequence.

Just search for "crop" in premiere effects.
 
Just cropping something into scope won't make the composition of the shots suddenly match. You'll likely end up with a lot of shots in which the framing will be either too heavy or too light or any number of other bad production planning and design oversights.

When I'm shooting a project for scope then the composition for each shot has to be framed for it to match. When shooting on film you can see the frame for the format etched into the ground glass. When shooting digital cinema on Red for example, even though it defaults to shoot 2:1 when you dial in scope the evf and lcd displays throw an electronic overlay onto the image so you can see where the 2.40:1 overlay of scope will fall and adjust your framing to achieve the best composition during principle.

Production design is a critical part of the cinematic process during principle. You either plan and excute effectively or you don't. Cropping after the fact is like deciding all of your dialogue is going to be ADR. You can certainly do it, but the end results will suck for the most part.
 
Aside from cropping, the way to get a native 2.40:1 framesize is just to create the appropriate sequence in Premiere (if you have CS4 that is). Do a simple calculation to see what the height needs to be after you've selected a width height. For example if you want a 1280 frame width then the height would be 533. This still involves cropping the image, you just won't see the black bars. Like Craig said, you need to plan your framing appropriately first.
 
I dont mind the black bars.....I just want a 2:40 frame to sit well in a 16:9 frame.....here an example of what i'm talking about....altough I dont think this is quite 2:40.....but its close enough:

http://www.vimeo.com/6514736

So how did this person get this ratio within a 16:9 frame? I'm using a GH1 also BTW
 
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Huy Vu said:
Add black bars to the 16:9 image and render out as a 16:9 file.
Click to expand...

I would also recommend playing through the sequence and adjusting the position of the video to sit behind the black bars as you want it to. Just to insure that your not cutting off your subject in a bad place.
 
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