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Lake Films

Lake Films

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Hey. Will applying an anamorphic squeeze in post degrade the image along with distorting it? I have been playing around with this all night and can't decide if it looks better or not, I'm at a loss, lol!
 
i'd say yes, but you'd better judge it on a larger screen. then again have you compared actually anamorphic footage against "fixed" footage on say a widescreen display?
 
There's a setting I have in FCP called "Anamorphic squeeze" It looks good but I think it distorts the image a little.
 
In general, I've found the algorithms that change image size and aspect ratio in the NLEs to pretty much suck. Since you are just changing aspect ratio you may have lucked out, depending on your NLE. If you are just changing the pixel aspect ratio (for example, using "interpret footage" in Premiere or clicking "Anamorphic" in FCP footage properties) then it probably won't degrade the image. On the other hand, if the algorithm is trying to resize the image then it might be trying to interpolate between pixels (for example, using a squeeze effect) and it will most likely degrade the image.
 
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