I'm kind of new to 16:9 aspect ratio.. but I really love how it looks. I actually like watching a 16:9 letterboxed image on a 4:3 screen more than a 4:3 image for some reason. But anyways... I didn't realize I had a problem until now. I usually compose my shots considering the brackets on the left and right side of the LCD, but never really the top ones. I figure that 16:9 letterboxed on a 4:3 screen, you wont loose any part of the frame vertically. And if I upload whatever the project online, I don't lose any part of the frame.
So I finally popped a project into a DVD player of a 16:9 1080i HDTV, and I was really disappointed. It looked like it cropped so much of my original frames out, that it didn't even look good to me anymore. The un-proportional letterboxed 4:3 version horizontally stretched to fit looked more appealing than the cropped proportional 16:9 image. Does every 16:9 TV crop out a ridiculous amount of the image? Or is it just my old rear projection 1080i TV?
I figure I could always scale down to the title safe area before exporting in FCP from now on, but If it ever happens to get watched on any other format (a 4:3 TV or Computer), then there will be a big black border, and that'll look extremely unprofessional.
I don't know what to do from now on. If I always frame my shots considering the whole frame, it'll look terrible on a 16:9 TV. But If frame my shots considering the brackets on the HVX's LCD, there will be a great deal of deal space when it goes online or to 4:3 screen.
Has anyone else faced this problem?
So I finally popped a project into a DVD player of a 16:9 1080i HDTV, and I was really disappointed. It looked like it cropped so much of my original frames out, that it didn't even look good to me anymore. The un-proportional letterboxed 4:3 version horizontally stretched to fit looked more appealing than the cropped proportional 16:9 image. Does every 16:9 TV crop out a ridiculous amount of the image? Or is it just my old rear projection 1080i TV?
I figure I could always scale down to the title safe area before exporting in FCP from now on, but If it ever happens to get watched on any other format (a 4:3 TV or Computer), then there will be a big black border, and that'll look extremely unprofessional.
I don't know what to do from now on. If I always frame my shots considering the whole frame, it'll look terrible on a 16:9 TV. But If frame my shots considering the brackets on the HVX's LCD, there will be a great deal of deal space when it goes online or to 4:3 screen.
Has anyone else faced this problem?
