Filters effecting aspect ratio/widescreen matt?

Carrington Benz

Carrington Benz

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Hi,

Sorry if this is a stupid 'Q' but , when I add transitions & filters I want to stop them affecting the aspect ratio or widescreen matt That I have layed over all the clips in timeline.
When I have the footage on the timeline - I like to get the aspect ratios sorted then I add the widescreen matt to frame the clips - I then start to add dip to color dissolves or invert but , it effects the black area as well -how can I go about stopping that ?

I have tried applying the dissolves first then rendering - then cropping or re applying widescreen matt but - still no difference ?

Am I gonna have to export every tiny transtioned effected clip & then re import just to add the widescreen matt ? surely not ?
 
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Re: Filters effecting aspect ratio/widescreen matt

The easiest way may be to take care of all of your effects/transitions/etc. in one sequence, then nest that sequence in a new one and apply the matte to it there. Take note that I am not sure that you can even add a matte to a nested sequence, but you could always add the widescreen bars on a track above your footage wherein it wouldn't be affected by anything you do to your footage (and then it wouldn't be necessary to nest the sequence either unless you just wanted to deal with editing in one sequence and apply the matte to the entire sequence via nesting).
 
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Re: Filters effecting aspect ratio/widescreen matt

Nesting your sequence is going to be the way to go. What I would suggest is editing everything in the original sequence with the mattes you want so you can get the framing/composition down for every shot. Once you get the framing/composition set for each clip, delete the matte filter. Go ahead and apply all of your color-correcting filters, etc. here as well. When you are finished editing, simply create a new sequence, nest your original sequence and apply a widescreen matte.

Hope this helps,
Chico
 
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Would'nt disolves, etc. also mess up footage shot with the in-camera letterboxing option?
 
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Sure, unless you applied a matte over it ;D
 
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I have to admit I just had a Homer Simpson "DOH!" moment there. I never considered that (obvisously) the black bars are part of the video signal and are susceptable to any and all fx applied to the image. Imagine what a drastic radial blur would do to the sharp edges of the matte.

DOH!

Until now I never understood why folks shot full frame 4:3 and matted in post. The standard reason given on all the boards is that this production method allows one to re-frame shots in post. That always sounded like a poor reason to me as I never could (and still don't) understand how one could frame a shot wrong. I never had a framing safety net when shooting 4:3, why do I need one now?

HOWEVER(!), I now see why not using the in-camera letterboxing is a good idea.

Thanks!
 
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