hd to 4:3?

ushere wrote on 6/3/2008, 5:01 AM
okay, again i should know the answer, but searching didn't help.

have a client who wants his edit hd program also delivered in 4:3 WITHOUT letter-boxing. ie, he wants full screen

i shot the program in 4:3 safe, so what's the quickest, simplest way of rendering out from an m2t file to a 4:3 non-letterbox file? or if it isn't that simple, how do i go about it.

should add that the client (m bloody ba), wants the program to match his other 4:3 material in a presentation - and no, i don't know what his presentation format is. i'm happy to give him an .avi and mpeg and let him sort it out...

tia

leslie

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/3/2008, 7:34 AM
The easiest way (if you have a single M2T file) is to:

(1) Change your project to 4:3 (DV PAL or DV NTSC)
(2) Drop the M2T file on the timeline
(3) Open Pan/Crop and right-click the frame and select Match Output Aspect
(4) Close Pan/Crop and Render to SD 4:3

That will add a 4:3 crop to your 16:9 footage and since you shot it with 4:3 bars on (I always do that too) you should not have to adjust anything.

~jr
Terry Esslinger wrote on 6/3/2008, 9:16 AM
Just for information - the black bars on the side are generally called pillar boxing, on the top and bottom is letter boxing. Just a semantic point, most people know what you are talking about anyway.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/3/2008, 9:30 AM
My workflow for HDV to SD projects
JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/3/2008, 9:40 AM
> ...most people know what you are talking about anyway

But Leslie really meant letter boxing. Pillar boxing happens when you drop 4:3 content into a 16:9 project. That is not what's being done here. Leslie wants to drop 16:9 content into a 4:3 project without letter boxing, which is correct. You must crop the 16:9 media to 4:3 or else the 16:9 will letterbox in a 4:3 project.

~jr
goodtimej wrote on 6/3/2008, 2:15 PM
I would create a new NTSC DV project and just drag the nested HD project onto the timeline and choose -> event pan/crop -> match project settings. Then render at Best.
Voila!
ushere wrote on 6/3/2008, 5:25 PM
as ever, you're a great bunch.....

i hate going to bed worrying about something i've forgotten / don't know in vegas, but love waking up to an answer here.

not that it's a problem, but i notice that when encoding to mp4, i get added saturation (pal). should i be swapping colour space?

thanks again everyone,

leslie
goodtimej wrote on 6/3/2008, 11:52 PM
are you encoding for DVD's? If so, why are you rendering to mp4?
ushere wrote on 6/4/2008, 12:02 AM
no, just for web / devs - though dvd's are taken from the original edit as well.

it just seems to me that the encoded mp4 (on pc) looks more saturated than the original it came from?

leslie