CROPPING IN FINAL CUT PRO HD 5.1. Please help!!!!

[ifownlee41nite@mac.com]

I am trying to take a 4:3 ratio and make it fit a 16:9. How do you do this without widely stretching the footage?

 

[ifownlee41nite@mac.com]

Please let me know if there is a feature on final cut or would I need to purchase a plug in.

 

[NoahK]

Well no- it's a square peg into a rectangular hole. Either you widen it or you enlarge it.

Noah

 

[adkimery]

Well no- it's a square peg into a rectangular hole. Either you widen it or you enlarge it.

Noah

or throw black bars on the side of it.

Unfortunately none of those solutions are very sexy. Unless, of course, the source material is high quality enough (and framed appropriately) to be "blown up" into a 16:9 aspect ratio w/o getting too soft.


-A

 

[Stuart Ferrier]

Change your Sequence setting to Anamorphic 16:9. On the motion tab in the Viewr, set Scale to 133 and Aspect Ratio to 33.33.
(this is the "blown up" option)

 

[ifownlee41nite@mac.com]

Change your Sequence setting to Anamorphic 16:9. On the motion tab in the Viewr, set Scale to 133 and Aspect Ratio to 33.33.
(this is the "blown up" option)

I'm going to try out setting the scale to 133 and aspect ratio to 33.33. However wouldn't the anamorphic 16:9 stretch the footage.

 

[ifownlee41nite@mac.com]

Change your Sequence setting to Anamorphic 16:9. On the motion tab in the Viewr, set Scale to 133 and Aspect Ratio to 33.33.
(this is the "blown up" option)

That did the trick. I got a little stretch, but what the hell. You can't have it all.