16:9?

Dan Sherman wrote on 4/14/2009, 2:26 PM

Is nesting a project, going to pan/crop and applying 16:9 the best work flow to achieve wide screen look for a 4:3 SD project?
That's what I've gotten into the habit of doing, and it works OK.
But is this the most convenient way?
Or is there another method if one doesn't want to nest a veg file?

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Chienworks wrote on 4/14/2009, 2:35 PM

Personally i don't nest. I apply the pan/crop to each event on the timeline. It's a lot smoother than nesting. If you add all your events up front you can use the 'paste event attributes' to apply the crop setting to all of them at once.

I also don't use the 16:9 preset as SD widescreen isn't really 16:9. I use the 'match output aspect' option as this matches the output frame exactly.

Dan Sherman wrote on 4/14/2009, 2:40 PM

Thanks Kelly, I'll give that a whirl.