Two questions:
(a) in the Sony HC40 MiniDV camera there is a 16:9 widescreen mode which actually does produce a wider angle wide than the standard "fullscreen" mode. When I transfer this into Screenblaster Movie Studio, however, the proportions are correct but ARE NOT the same as fullscreen clips that have been cropped with the Screenblast Pan/Crop mode to produce 16:9 widescreen. The camera's widescreen is considerably narrower in the vertical dimension than the Screenblaster crop. So I wondered if the camera was outputting 1.85:1 (another preset crop in Screenblaster), but No, the camera's widescreen is STILL squatter and wider (not distorted, just a shorter, wider rectangle) that the Screenblaster crop.
Anyone got an idea what's going on here?
(b) in the camera manual when describing the widescreen it discusses ID-1 and ID-2 systems, saying that this aspect ration information is inserted between video signals for S video output. But I don't know if this information is also captured to hard disk and if it is picked up by Screenblaster and other editors. Would appreciate comments from anyone with insight on this aspect of the camera and the capture routines for Screenblaster or other editors.
(a) in the Sony HC40 MiniDV camera there is a 16:9 widescreen mode which actually does produce a wider angle wide than the standard "fullscreen" mode. When I transfer this into Screenblaster Movie Studio, however, the proportions are correct but ARE NOT the same as fullscreen clips that have been cropped with the Screenblast Pan/Crop mode to produce 16:9 widescreen. The camera's widescreen is considerably narrower in the vertical dimension than the Screenblaster crop. So I wondered if the camera was outputting 1.85:1 (another preset crop in Screenblaster), but No, the camera's widescreen is STILL squatter and wider (not distorted, just a shorter, wider rectangle) that the Screenblaster crop.
Anyone got an idea what's going on here?
(b) in the camera manual when describing the widescreen it discusses ID-1 and ID-2 systems, saying that this aspect ration information is inserted between video signals for S video output. But I don't know if this information is also captured to hard disk and if it is picked up by Screenblaster and other editors. Would appreciate comments from anyone with insight on this aspect of the camera and the capture routines for Screenblaster or other editors.