Letterbox question about DVX 100B

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Hi all,

Totally a newbie question so bare with me, and also sorry for the multiple post in different forums. I've just started a doc and have about 10 hours shoot and a rough 20 min segment put together. I shoot the whole 10 hours in the letterbox mode on my DVX 100B in 24p. The client is now talking about possibly trying to get the final project in film festivals with the chance of also making a DVD available for purchase. I'm sure you all know what my next question(s) is going to be. Being that I have potentially to Blow up my footage to fit a film screen I also want to be able to offer different versions of the footage on DVD (ie ability to watch it in the 4:3 ratio with black bars, but I also want to offer a 16:9 ratio). And that is really were my questioning begins. From now on how should I be shooting this to accomplish those end results? I do not have the money for an Anomorphic Adapter at the moment so answer the questions as if this was not an option. According to Barry Greens book, Letter box mode is a better bet if you are going to blow up or up rez to HD. Any help from any of you will be greatly appreciated as I would rather head off a potential problem now then keep shooting and have a head ache in post. Hope all of you are having a great day. This place rocks the house.

Cheers,

Vic
 
i think a lot depends on how much more you have to shoot, but with 10 hours already i would be tempted to keep going the way you're doing it, & i believe you are correct that other than using the anomorphic adaptor (which creates its own technical problems) shooting letterbox & uprezzing in post is the best way of keeping the footage at the highest resolution. This will create a lot of post work for you, but at least the whole film will be consistent. i believe the best way of uprezzing can be found here -

http://dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=6843

Good luck & feel free to show us some footage
 
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