OK....I know I'm probably like the millionth person to bring up this topic but I'am so confused and ready to give up....Ok heres a million questions...So My friends and I went out and did some test shots (In letterbox 24p) for a film we are about to make...When we were done we went back into capture...I've watched David Jimmersons capture tutorial and had some more questions...So I went into my preferences and changed the capture PREVIEW display to widescreen and then went into the previe preferences - preview and UNCHECKED the base dv decoding resolution on preview window size...is this a good idea?...Should I capture with the preview window in widescreen?...should I leave that box unchecked?...also I captured the 24p letterbox footage in 29.97 FPS and then dropped it into my 24p widescreen project setting...now I was told NOT to right click on the movie and change the pixel properties to 1.2 but that I should crop the image by going into the footage settings and selecting the 16:9 ratio...Is this also a good idea?...I feel like I lose more of the footage by doing the crop and I also dont get the black bars...right clicking on the movie and changing the pixel ration from .9 to 1.2 looks better..but I dont want to lose quality...can someone PLEASE help me with these questions??..thank you!!
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jmcox said:
No. Don't mess with any of the default settings. Just don't. It will automatically do what's appropriate for the footage.
If you want your footage to be widescreen, it's not only a good idea, it's necessary. No other way to do it.
When you shoot letterbox (which I find completely useless and needlessly confusing), you're shooting 4:3. You're NOT shooting widescreen. The pixel aspect ratio MUST be .909 and NOT 1.21, or you'll distort the image.
DVX 100 b PAL longing for widescreen
I do a lot of musiceventprojects and have come to realize that 16:9 is more
suitable for scene events than those 4:3 projects I´ve done sofar.
First thought was the anamorphic lens but after reading Barry.W.Greens
book I think its too hard to get right focus and its also very expensive.
Have done some tests with Vegas 6 and pan/croop to PAL WIDE project size and even if the vertical resulotion is diminished I´ve still got 432 lines left (PAL) and its still rather good looking.
If I shoot 4:3 and pan/crop to projectsize I can still manipulate the vertical axis 25% up or down if i have to therefore I don´t use letterboxmode.
Instead of buying the anamorphic lens I can almost get a consumer HD camera
with true 16:9 and use it as a fixed camera and then take near with my DVX.
My thought was that I can more freely zoom in and out the HD material in Vegas due to better resulotion and mix with nearshots from the DVX with slightly diminished resulotion.
Am I totally wrong or is this a way to go shooting scene events with 2 cameras and one shooter?
Regards
/Aje (Sweden)
I do a lot of musiceventprojects and have come to realize that 16:9 is more
suitable for scene events than those 4:3 projects I´ve done sofar.
First thought was the anamorphic lens but after reading Barry.W.Greens
book I think its too hard to get right focus and its also very expensive.
Have done some tests with Vegas 6 and pan/croop to PAL WIDE project size and even if the vertical resulotion is diminished I´ve still got 432 lines left (PAL) and its still rather good looking.
If I shoot 4:3 and pan/crop to projectsize I can still manipulate the vertical axis 25% up or down if i have to therefore I don´t use letterboxmode.
Instead of buying the anamorphic lens I can almost get a consumer HD camera
with true 16:9 and use it as a fixed camera and then take near with my DVX.
My thought was that I can more freely zoom in and out the HD material in Vegas due to better resulotion and mix with nearshots from the DVX with slightly diminished resulotion.
Am I totally wrong or is this a way to go shooting scene events with 2 cameras and one shooter?
Regards
/Aje (Sweden)
plainman007
Well-known member
Hi Aje, There is no written rule manner in which to shoot an event. So we cant say this is the way they shoot events. Anything which works and gets your end result is fine. Your concept of manually keyframing the 25% to include proper subject framing is a well accepted method which is used by many of us here. Yes you are absolutely right that when your making a standard definition project out of HD footage you can always go almost 4x into the frame and ud still have pretty good resolution. I mean when it translates into standard definition terms. But im sure you will notice the color bandwith differences etc between both the cameras so you may not get what looks like seamless footage between the close up shots and the long ones. Maybe some Color correction or grading might help cover up flaws. Best of luck.