WideScreen again...

FuTz wrote on 2/13/2002, 10:01 AM

I've read the different topics related to the subject but got even more confused cause people use different stuff, different monitors, etc...
So here's what I'd like to do:
I've been shooting 16:9 with Sony PD100. I'd like to preview AND render in this format.
On a REGULAR tv set (4:3 like most of us have at home) I'd like to see my preview (through FireWire in my cam then out to my tv) AND render in 16:9 WITH these black bars on top and bottom of the image.
I captured then rendered in Widescreen format: no success. I got a vertically stretched image on tv.
And when I preview through FireWire, I get lots of glitches, which I don't get on the VV3 on-screen monitor: why? Memory prob? I got 3x 128Meg memory.

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SonyEPM wrote on 2/13/2002, 10:30 AM

For the "Widescreen look" with black bars on the top and bottom, to be viewed on a 4:3 TV, use the normal (non widescreen) DV project settings and render as regular DV (again, non-widescreen).

Your DV clips that were shot as widescreen, and captured with SF Vidcap, will need no special treatment- you'll see the black bars on the top and the bottom when previewing and after rendering.

For anything that isn't widescreen to begin with (normal DV footage, graphics etc), you'll need to do some special treatment of those shots. You can crop each event, or change the the pixel aspect...BUT:

The EASIEST way to fake the widescreen look for a "mixed format" project (mixing wide and not-wide source material) is to create 2 new video tracks at the top and overlay a black bar at the top and the bottom. If you need to re-frame any of the non-widescreen events, use pan/crop to do so.

Hope this helps-

FuTz wrote on 2/18/2002, 6:11 PM

It worked! Thanks a LOT!!!