avid 16:9 to 4:3 SD

[jrmiller_entertainment]

My station is going 16:9 soon, (not HD don't ask me why, it's a stupid move). we can input 16:9 SD into our newscutter but we are having trouble exporting the footage to 4:3 using a Sony DVCAM deck. Is there a setting I can't find in Avid that can do this? It squeezes it and we are looking to just cut off the edges.

Thanks

 

[grinner]

after effects can do this. Avid likes a letter box.

 

[MichaelP]

reformat effect - preset for 4:3 extraction.

 

[jrmiller_entertainment]

thanks. the avid 4:3 preset seems to squeeze the footage. I can take it into AE and stretch the image to fit into a 4:3 screen.

 

[Butcher]

Pan and Scan. Set it to 16:9 (I assume anamorphic) input and 4:3 output. It will unstretch and scale your image. I think it's realtime too. No reason to go to AE for this.

Michael.

 

[jrmiller_entertainment]

I've tried pan and scan and it works but it blows up the image which creates artifacts.

 

[Butcher]

That's what's going to happen when you take a 16:9 anamorphic image, unstretch it, then center-cut for 4:3.

Playing back 16:9 anamorphic material on a 4:3 TV will be letterboxed. If you don't want the letterbox and just want to cut off the sides you have to blow it up about 33% to do that. Pan and Scan just does all of this in one step.

Michael.

 

[jrmiller_entertainment]

didn't think about it like that. good point