Squeeze Mode vs Widescreen

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Craig_Tarry

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Hello, I'm going to shoot a 10min short in a month and a anamorphic adapter is too expensive for me. I'd like the option of transfer to film down the road. Is squeeze mode acceptable for that? Do you know of any short films that have been shot in squeeze mode and then transferred to film?
Thanks for any advice - Raymond Tarry
 
That site suggests to shoot in 4:3 but in order to keep all lines of resolution you'll have to shoot in squeeze. I shot my last short in squeeze and will have both digital and film copies per festival. Long story short, no matter what, squeeze is the second best option to using an anamorphic adapter, as long as you have an NLE that will "unsqueeze" it to 16:9, thus keeping all lines of resolution. I hope this answers your question.
 
Squeeze mode is gonna cost you resolution. It wouldn't make a difference if you weren't transferring to film, but you are. So, letterbox might be your best option.
 
Squeeze mode is gonna cost you resolution.
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For clarification for future readers, let's spell out that "squeeze" on a DVX is very different from "squeeze" on an HVX. On a DVX, squeeze is a digital stretch process.

On an HVX, "squeeze" is true native widescreen using the full 16:9 chip.

The name is the same, the process is very different.
 
jin said:
That site suggests to shoot in 4:3 but in order to keep all lines of resolution you'll have to shoot in squeeze. I shot my last short in squeeze and will have both digital and film copies per festival. Long story short, no matter what, squeeze is the second best option to using an anamorphic adapter, as long as you have an NLE that will "unsqueeze" it to 16:9, thus keeping all lines of resolution. I hope this answers your question.
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It's the same either way.

Squeeze mode take the image which would be between the black bars in letterbox mode and stretches it to fill the 720x480 area.

Shooting 4:3 and cropping in post does the same thing, in terms of resolution.

If you're making a widescreen DVD, it works out to the same.

If you're making a 4:3 DVD with letterbox, it works out to the same thing.

Shooting 4:3 gives you the option of reframing in post. Squeeze doesn't.
 
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