Widescreen

[deanl]

Ok I was wondering On the camcorder Im using at the moment. It has the option of shooting in wide screen. Now I understand that this is not true widescreen just a croped image, but I still like the look it produces. I capture to premier 6 in wide screen mode. Everything is fine I can edit in widescreen it all looks good. Now when exporting back to tape. It is still in wide screen on the camera. On My wide screen tv it also looks good. But not everyone has widescreen tv's. When its played on a 4:3 the image distorts. What I want to know is can shoot using the wide screen option on the camera capture and edit in premier but export as a 4:3 image with the widescreen image letterboxed inside. That way I can give the freinds with normal 4:3 tv's. The 4:3 letterboxed letterboxed version. And the ones with 16:9 TV'S the full wide screen version.

Ok hope you guys can help. Despin out

[Generic Skinhead]

The last short I made is all done in Widescreen. It was shot in standard mode and then I went into Final Cut and put a widescreen filter on it. I presume Premier must have something like that?

[deanl]

That sounds ok but your just cropping your image. I mean when you shot your footage all your compasitions were in 4:3 frame I asume. So when add this filter you could be losing important parts of the image. What I want to do is shoot in widesreen from the start.

[Generic Skinhead]

Well no I don't think so.
Another time I shot widescreen from the start on a Canon XL1. I don't see any differance between that and the filter. Final cut makes you render widescreen footage anyway. I dunno.

Whats the point of widescreen anyway? It's just style man?

[deanl]

Style is everything. lol.

What I mean is when you add the filter its just cuting of the top and the bottom of the frame. But when you shot your footage who never had any refernce to where the letterbox was going to be. So it could mess up you shot a little do you know what I mean. Cutting of the top of peoles heads and so on.

[binxalot]

You can take the footage into aftereffects as widescreen 720x432 (might been off) then output backout at 720x480.

[Jeremy]

If you shoot with the image cropped, edit it and output it without changing anything, won't it work on widescreen TV's anyway? I buy widescreen videos all the time and they play on my 4:3 in a letter box. But play them on a widescreen TV and the TV has the option to effectively zoom into the image so it fills the screen.

I've never had a widescreen video that looks compressed sideways on my TV, they are all letterboxed. So you should only need one version of your video.

As for cropping the image, you could also move it around, say down for example, they just crop the bottom. See what I mean?

[deanl]

I dont think you understand mate. Its a little different to widescreen video's you buy in the shops. But hey don't worry about it, Ive sorted it out now.

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