Wide screen and full screen

srfer919

srfer919

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I have two sets of footage. One in widescreen, and one in fullscreen. Both SD, the widescreen footage was downconverted during capture. I have a lot more widescreen footage than I do full screen, but I need to use some clips from from the full screen with the widescreen. My client would probably preffer fullscreen, but widescreen is acceptable. So either size would be fine.

I've kinda figured out what I'm going to do to match them up, But I feel there is a better way, and I'd like to get some input on what everyone else would do in a situation like that.

So the question is, what would you do to work the fullscreen footage in with the widescreen or vise versa? Remember, The widescreen footage is HD that was downconverted during capture, and there's only one tape full of fullscreen against 4 tapes worth of widescreen. I can also recapture the HD footage without the downconversion if that would help me turn it to fullscreen better.

The footage is of a wedding. It's only the ceremony that will have the widescreen and fullscreen mixed.

Any input/ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
Okay well your best option is to convert your HD (16:9 Widescreen) footage to 4:3 (Full Screen) using compressor if your using a mac. Set the dimensions to that of your full screen footage then convert. It should be alright but it might take some trial and error. The best thing is to just shoot in widescreen next time because you can always crop it to 4:3.
 
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91ststudios said:
Okay well your best option is to convert your HD (16:9 Widescreen) footage to 4:3 (Full Screen) using compressor if your using a mac. Set the dimensions to that of your full screen footage then convert. It should be alright but it might take some trial and error. The best thing is to just shoot in widescreen next time because you can always crop it to 4:3.
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Great. This was the answer I was looking for. I'm assuming that using compressor this way wont make the widescreen footage look stretched vertically? I hope so. I didn't think there was a way to do this, but I'll test it out.

Thanks
 
you can never shoot native widescreen and fitting it into 4x3 without either shoping out the sides or adding black bars on top and bottom, if you squezzed true 16x9 into 4x3 space it will look streched up and ugly
 
24fps4ever said:
you can never shoot native widescreen and fitting it into 4x3 without either shoping out the sides or adding black bars on top and bottom, if you squezzed true 16x9 into 4x3 space it will look streched up and ugly
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Ok, that's what I thought. I think I'll just have to do away with the sides then.

I know disjecta has a tutorial on a way to turn 4:3 progressive to 16:9, but unfortunately the 4:3 footage I have is interlaced.
 
No I don't, but I think I'll be getting it now. I've held off spending the extra money for it for too long. It's a must have.

I use FCS2
 
srfer919 said:
Ok, that's what I thought. I think I'll just have to do away with the sides then.

I know disjecta has a tutorial on a way to turn 4:3 progressive to 16:9, but unfortunately the 4:3 footage I have is interlaced.
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Yep, compressor will hack the sides off. If your content is in the center it should be fine but if not, you'll have to resort to that 16:9 tutorial.

You can deinterlace it in FCS2. It might take a while but there is a de-interlace option when exporting out footage both in compressor and the normal export command in FCP. Its under the size output menu I believe.
 
i've resized hd footage into SD footage, and it didnt get all stretched and ugly, so im not sure why there would be an issue scaling the 16x9 footage into a 4x3 project, creating a letterboxed version.
 
Yes, I understand that and am fine with it. I just don't think it would look very good switching back and forth between two different shots, one letterboxed, and the other not, so now I'm trying to convert the 4:3 to 16:9 to create a widescreen video.

The entire video needed be either letterboxed, or full screen. Not intermixed, and deciding on how to do that was the question.

I think I'll try getting the 4:3 to match the letterboxed 16:9.
 
I do the same as PaPa and 24fps4ever except I scale the black letterbox out of the picture. You do obviously lose a little bit of resolution but you're average joe won't see any difference. I do this every week to convert sports footage from the 16x9 I shoot in to the old school 4x3 a local TV station requires. They said they will still be 4/3 SD for the next year and a half. They said the footage looks great and they don't know it came from 16x9 so obviously the resolution hit is not overly devastating.

Ed
 
Atwinator said:
I do the same as PaPa and 24fps4ever except I scale the black letterbox out of the picture. You do obviously lose a little bit of resolution but you're average joe won't see any difference. I do this every week to convert sports footage from the 16x9 I shoot in to the old school 4x3 a local TV station requires. They said they will still be 4/3 SD for the next year and a half. They said the footage looks great and they don't know it came from 16x9 so obviously the resolution hit is not overly devastating.

Ed
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You also have to crop the sides off when you scale the letterbox out correct?
 
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