Quick tech vidding question...

[ash48]

I've been thinking more about the bromance vid and realised if I used footage from lots of different shows I would have a mix of both 4.3 and 16.9 aspect ratios.

I think that'll look pretty yuk. I wouldn't want to stretch the 4.3 nor crop the 16.9. Does anyone have any idea how I could make the different ARs work together?

Damn, idea might be dead before I've even begun...

Comments

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Well, you can't do it without cropping one or the other. I mean, something's gonna have to be cropped - you can crop the 4:3, though, and put everything in 16:9.

How to do that depends on your editing program. I mean, I can do that pretty easily in Adobe Premiere Pro - if I set the project size for either 4:3 or 16:9, I can then use the motion tool to zoom in on the portion of the frame I want to appear in the vid. I think other people use stuff like Virtual Dub to crop source to size before importing it into their editing program, but I'm not sure.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.... so I can crop 4:3 and put it into 16:9... I have no idea if my program can do that (I use Final Cut). I will definitely look into this. I mean, I can set my project size and I have zoomed 4.3 footage before.. so yeah, I can see how that could work..

I could also check out my clipping program...

Thank you.
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[barkley.livejournal.com]

I've made a few vids of multiple source in Final Cut, and I generally always end up going 16:9[1], and putting black matte bars over the top and bottom. That way I can move the 4:3 footage up or down to make it look best.

[1] exception being the X-Files where I had 1 16:9 clip from season 6 and the rest of the vid was 4:3 from seasons 1-5. I hate a show that changes aspect ratio mid stream. *g*

[ash48.livejournal.com]

So basically zoom the 4:3 footage to fit the 16:9 screen and apply black matte bars to the top and bottom? Did that effect the quality of the 4:3 footage much?

Do you have an example of one of your vids you could link me to. I'd love to see how that looks.

Thanks so much. This would be an option I could easily work with I think.
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[barkley.livejournal.com]

I don't even zoom the 4:3, I just leave it as is and the black mattes chop off the top and bottom. (I do sometimes adjust a clip up or down, so the chop doesn't chop off a person's head, but that's it, no zooming.)

http://www.bonuspoints.net/vids/index.html

Canadian Bingo is about equally mixed between 4:3 and 16:9 clips.

Separate Ways - I believe the Airwolf stuff was all 4:3 and SGA was all 16:9. (there are a few stray 16:9 clips I didn't squish down...if you see the logo, ignore them.)

Make Your Own Kind of Music is what happens when I just didn't care. (Computer broke, too hard to fix on iMovie, the only thing available to me at the time, and Vividcon deadline was looming.) So it's all mixed and not normalized at all.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. I've just taken a look and they look great. I really didn't think I'd like the 4:3 screen, but with the cropping it looks good. I think that might be my solution.

(I couldn't open Make Your Own Kind of Music). I got a screen full of text).

Many thanks.