widescreen borders - are they always affected

auggybendoggy wrote on 5/25/2003, 12:58 AM

I can't seem to add effects that don't affect the black borders on top and bottom
of the wide screen. For example, if I use the glow effect from a soft 1st keyframe
to a totally white screen on the last keyframe, the borders become white also.

Is this normal? I want the top and bottom to stay black.

Please help

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auggybendoggy wrote on 5/25/2003, 8:23 AM

anyone?

farss wrote on 5/25/2003, 8:42 AM

Have you cropped a 4:3 image to achieve 16:9 or are you starting with native 16:9?

FuTz wrote on 5/25/2003, 10:53 AM

Auggy, just put a mask (like this one: http://www.indigipix.com/images/letterbox.png ) on your *top* track in timeline. You may have to use the Pan/Crop to fit it just right.
Cheers.

Udi wrote on 5/25/2003, 11:25 AM

Why do you have borders?
It seeme to me that your input is wide, but the project is normal, in that case, there are borders and the effect is working on the whole projec area, including the borders.

Udi

auggybendoggy wrote on 5/25/2003, 6:19 PM

when I record using my mini dv panasonic dv953 i set it to record in cinema mode
which it puts black borders on top and bottom giving it the effect of wide screen.
I use it so composition is easier to set.

I then upload it to the pc and then set pan crop on the impoted media track to widescreen.

I also found this pan crop wide screen useful when importing flash avi files. If I set the pan crop to the media file to normal (14:3) then I get some black border on the left and right side of the flash 5.0 avi file. When I set the pan crop to widescreen then the left and right borders disappear and it looks normal. I then position the frame for centering and it works just fine.

I think my lack of knowledge of learning the different aspects is confusing me.

auggy