How to do Widescreen Fromat

tiger wrote on 12/30/2001, 2:42 PM

I have not been able to produce a widescreen format which is truely widescreen. I set the project properties to widescreen and pan/crop to the output aspect ratio. The result is a compressed image not a full widescreen. Has anybody tried producing a widescreen format.

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screenryan wrote on 1/4/2002, 12:07 PM

I asked a similar question a little while ago and since I got no responses, I figured I'd experiment a bit.

I wanted to use the 16:9 feature of my Sony D8 camera to use a bit more of the CCD instead of shooting a full screen 4:3 image and cropping. It might not make a difference, but I feel better about myself having figured it out.

I shot some footage in the 16:9 mode and let Video Capture automatically bring it over to the HD. then I made my edits and rendered the final project.

I selected NTSC DV and unchecked the "stretch image" box. this sends the widescreen image (with the black bars) to the camera and when played on my TV, it is letterboxed.

The bad part is that with my Sony camera, turning on the 16:9 mode turns off the digital image stabilization. just means you need to zoom out a bit and get a nice tripod.

Ryan

SonyEPM wrote on 1/4/2002, 2:33 PM

Have you tried rendering with the NTSC DV Widescreen template?

screenryan wrote on 1/6/2002, 3:49 AM

no, but wouldn't that squish the image so that when it's played on a widescreen TV, the TV would stretch it back out?

If it doesn't, then what is the difference between the NTSC Widescreen and NTSC DV?

SonyEPM wrote on 1/7/2002, 10:18 AM

"what is the difference between the NTSC Widescreen and NTSC DV"

The pixel aspect ratio. For regular NTSC DV, this is .9091, for Widescreen 1.2121. Your TV, if it can handle widescreen, will handle the stretching so the picture looks right.