exporting 4:3 to 16:9???

rook

rook

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I shot with the whole frame planning to Matte in post. Matted to 1:85:1 in FCP 4.5.

When I export to a quicktime file, how do I get rid of those black bars?

Know how?

-THX-
rook.
 
If you have the blackbars in FCP, you need to create a new sequence in the right aspect ratio (16:9) and then insert your finished footage there. The black bars should be outside your frame now, if not, just resize the video (dont enlarge it; Quality loss), then export.
 
proximity said:
If you have the blackbars in FCP, you need to create a new sequence in the right aspect ratio (16:9) and then insert your finished footage there. The black bars should be outside your frame now, if not, just resize the video (dont enlarge it; Quality loss), then export.
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hhmmm that was a bit vegue. :angry: Does anyone else know how?

Here's my situation:

I shot my footage FULL FRAME (not anamorphic) but while shooting my footage I had markers on my LCD for a 2.35 Aspect Ratio.

Now that my footage is edited I dropped the FCP matte filter for 2.35


Again like the previous post I would like to remove the black bars and have my QUICKTIME MOV. play like the ones on APPLE's Trailer site: http://www.apple.com/trailers/

Can anyone out there explain how to do this? Other then just drop this and change the size...WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? If you can provide more step by step information that would be great! :thumbsup:
 
Ok - I've been trying to figure this out for a while now myself and recently got a handle on it.

To output your footage 2.35:1 (or any other aspect ration) you need to create a new sequence and change the settings (right click on the seq in the browser and choose settings)....Under Frame Size change the aspect ratio to custom and change the width and height to 720 x 306 for 2.35:1 (720/2.35=306)

Open the new sequence into the timeline and drag your 4:3 sequence from the browser into your new 2.35:1 sequence (this is called nesting I believe). You'll notice that the image is distorted because it's trying to display the whole 4:3 frame in the 2.35:1 frame. Press Apple>Option>V and remove the distort attribute.

You should now have a perfect 2.35:1 image with no distortion and no loss of quality.

Hope this is what you were looking for.
 
I couldn't understand the first reply either so I assumed it was because I was a moron. Which I just happen to be. But to make a long story short I exported to compressor and then messed around with the crop tools. After a painfully long wait and two failures, I managed to get what I was looking for.

Here's the worst part. I have no idea what I did.....

Told ya....I'm a moron.

All I know is that it can be done in compressor with the crop tools.

Good luck.

-rook
 
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