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XLA wrote on 10/16/2008, 9:53 AM

Hi,

I sometimes see film on tv with bars top and bottom (wide screen), my question is do these broadcasters trim edges to make it fit on tvs or is it exactly as it was produced..I beleive the standard of broadcasting stations is tending towards Wide screen. And reading a past thread someone said, render the project at highest quality then you can downsize..my question is, is how do I avoid loss when re rendering into a smaller frame.

thx,
XLA

Comments

GlennChan wrote on 10/16/2008, 10:14 AM

To fit a 16:9 image into a 4:3 frame, one could:

A- Letterbox. Add the black bars on the top and bottom.
B- Edge crop. Crop the sides off. When you shoot, you would need to make sure nothing important is in the sides that you'll crop off.
C- Pan and scan. You can't really do this live.
D- Distort the geometry to fit in a 4:3 frame. Not recommended. However, some people setup their TVs to do this when showing SD on a 16:9 monitor.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/16/2008, 10:23 AM

to answer your question very specifically, the stations don't do ANYTHING to the film, that's how they receive it. It's already changed to letter box or pan/scan by someone else.

but you're not rendering to a smaller frame: you're still rendering to DV/HD res, you're just shrinking down the whole film (of letter box). You'll loose lots of detail but that's just how things work. :)

XLA wrote on 10/19/2008, 6:55 PM

Thanks guys thats all i needed to know .

Cheers.
XLA