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Spot|DSE wrote on 12/5/2004, 9:12 AM
If you're matching DV widescreen, I'd recommend just using pan/crop and tweaking if you need to. It's still 720 x 480, question is whether you are letterboxed or not in the original clip?
goshep wrote on 12/5/2004, 11:26 AM
Thanks Spot. Good ol' fashioned "eyeing it" seems to work. I'm just jumping from my clip to the "16:9" clip and comparing. Doing the same for contrast, etc. I'm a layperson at best.

orca wrote on 12/17/2004, 2:31 PM
This is actually still a confusing subject to me since Vegas has a template for 16:9 Widescreen DV, but both are still 720 x 480 so actually if we play it on widescreen TV we have a lower resolution image than compared to 4:3?!?

So what would be better actually (image quality wise)? To shoot in 16:9 and edit it using 16:9 template (with all vertically stretched image) or just shoot regular 4:3, edit 4:3 then crop it to 16:9? Or is this just the same difference?


Spot|DSE wrote on 12/17/2004, 3:01 PM
No, it's not the same.
If you vertically stretch, you're losing resolution because you're enlarging pixels but not increasing them.
If you crop/letterbox, you are keeping resolution the same, but you are not changing the number of pixels. All you are doing is removing top/bottom of the image. Depending on your framing, camera, and content, this is *usually* the best way to go.
orca wrote on 12/17/2004, 3:20 PM
Thanks again for the info Spot. This is someting I want to start experimenting actually. I guess when you move to HD, it's not an issue anymore since the chip is native 16:9?!?


Spot|DSE wrote on 12/17/2004, 4:29 PM
Correct. HDV is 16:9 by default. The HDV cameras can produce 4:3, but the cam is ALWAYS shooting widescreen.
orca wrote on 12/20/2004, 12:23 PM
Hi Spot,

I still have a question about this issue, it's more on how to do it in Vegas though. I just got your VV5 workshop book this past Sat. but kinda had to read it in a hurry since I'm under a deadline, so I'm not sure if you addressed this in your book or not, but I was looking at the index using the word crop/cropping from the pages I skimmed I couldn't find the answer to my question yet.

Anyways, my question is for the cropping in Vegas. I know you can just click on the event and choose 16:9 it will crop the video nicely for wide screen. The problem is when I have to cropped events and I transition them with let's say blur... somehow the blackbars are also affected during the transition. So how can I maintain the blackbars throughout the video? Is there a way to do it on project level instead of event level?

I know Zenote has letterboxing filter, is this what I need instead? Or I can do it in Vegas? I guess the question is not only for Spot, but for other experts as well who can help me with this. Thanks.





> If you're matching DV widescreen, I'd recommend just using pan/crop
> and tweaking if you > need to. It's still 720 x 480, question is whether
> you are letterboxed or not in the original clip?