unintentional blurring of letter box
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Kevin Dorsey
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I'm not sure why you have a letterbox in a 16x9 project. Was this shot with Letterbox turned on in camera? If so you could apply blur, then apply the clip effect in Premiere. Just clip the top and bottom until they match up with the letterbox.
Tell me a litle more about your camera and Premiere settings. I'm under the assumption that you shot letterbox and you are using 4x3 settings in Premiere. Help me to help you. Jerry Maguire
Edit* Preston beat me to the answer.
Tell me a litle more about your camera and Premiere settings. I'm under the assumption that you shot letterbox and you are using 4x3 settings in Premiere. Help me to help you. Jerry Maguire
Edit* Preston beat me to the answer.
Yeah, I shot letterbox on the DVX100b. Then I think I started a widescreen project in premiere, but I may have made it 4:3. I don't quite remember as one of them wasn't looking right, or caused some problems, so I switched to the other.
I guess a good question is, from now on, when I want to shoot 16x9 and edit 16x9, what should I set the camera to and what should I set the premiere project to?
I guess a good question is, from now on, when I want to shoot 16x9 and edit 16x9, what should I set the camera to and what should I set the premiere project to?
Kevin Dorsey
Veteran
Shoot in "Stretch" mode, using thin line detail, and then edit your project using the widescreen preset in Premiere. If you plan on going out to DVD then you will encode your project using a widescreen preset. This will allow the video to be presented full screen on a 16x9 tv, and letterboxed on a 4x3 tv.
If you want to go back to tape, and show your project on a regular 4x3 tv, edit using the 4x3 preset, and scale your footage down to 75%. When you do this you should see your footage letterboxed.
If you want to go out to tape and view your footage on a 16x9 tv. Just edit using the widescreen preset in Premiere and no further adjustments are necessary.
The quality is not as good using stretch mode, but when shooting 24p, using thin line detail. It's pretty nice. It all depends on what your planning on showing your project on. If you are going to be watching on a 4x3 display, I would shoot in full screen and then letterbox in post.
If you want to go back to tape, and show your project on a regular 4x3 tv, edit using the 4x3 preset, and scale your footage down to 75%. When you do this you should see your footage letterboxed.
If you want to go out to tape and view your footage on a 16x9 tv. Just edit using the widescreen preset in Premiere and no further adjustments are necessary.
The quality is not as good using stretch mode, but when shooting 24p, using thin line detail. It's pretty nice. It all depends on what your planning on showing your project on. If you are going to be watching on a 4x3 display, I would shoot in full screen and then letterbox in post.