Anamorphic to Pan&Scan How?

[FiloBeto]

I have DVX100 footage shot with the Anamorphic adapter and I need to output a 4:3 pan& scan version.

From what I understand, the adapter squashes the picture horizontally to 16:9 image or 1.78 aspect ratio.

480x1.78=854

I used Quicktime Pro to resize the footage to 854x480 High Quality.

Then I imported it into 4:3 (720x480) After Effects 3 comp and panned around the footage.

The result has a lot of blocky-ness.

I also have Final Cut 3 and Premiere 6.

Any ideas on the right way to process this?

 

[scannon]

The anamorphic adaptor does not squash the vertical it leaves it alone but increases the field of view along the horizontal axis by 33% and retains the DV pixel resolution of 720 X 480 with aspect of 1.33 : 1. You can capture this in a 16:9 template in Premiere and the video should match without any vertical scaling. You should be able to then import this into an AE 4:3 comp for pan an scan.

DVX Squeeze mode alters the vertical by to compensate for squeezing the 16.9 aspect onto 4:3 chips. When you bring Squeeze into a 16:9 template the video is elctronically cropped top and bottom by about 12% each or 54 pixels leaving a vertical resolution of about 372 instead of 480.

S Cannon

 

[Joshua Provost]

You will have a bit of blockiness, since you are upsampling the image horizontally. You shouldn't have to output the film as 854x480. You should be able to just drop the 16:9 file in a 4:3 Premiere timeline, use Motion to Zoom a bit to have it fill the screen vertically, and also use Motion with cuts or keyframes to shift the image left or right as necessary. Then, output your final 4:3 P&S version back to DV or out to DVD.

 

[scannon]

You will have a bit of blockiness, since you are upsampling the image horizontally. You shouldn't have to output the film as 854x480. You should be able to just drop the 16:9 file in a 4:3 Premiere timeline, use Motion to Zoom a bit to have it fill the screen vertically, and also use Motion with cuts or keyframes to shift the image left or right as necessary. Then, output your final 4:3 P&S version back to DV or out to DVD.

No, the amamorphic adaptor will not natively create any pixel issues since there is no scaling. It the cleanest way to create 16:9 with 4:3 chips it only optically reshapes the image.

The issue here is the alteration of the pixel scale when the video was processed through Quicktime Pro @ 854 X 480.

S Cannon