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

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

The 4:3 ratio isn't a problem with me as a lot of the vidding I do is old Doctor Who stuff and it only comes in 4:3.

IMHO I think you'd save yourself a lot of heartache trying to wedge it into a new ratio. But here's a suggestion.

In the "Time & Space" vid I needed to have those stills moving and twisting but making them larger would cause them to be fuzzy.

My solution was to create a 16:9 (you knew what I meant) project. I created a 16:9 frame that was smaller and would hide any black areas. Then I did all the expanding, contraction and rotating I needed.

After I exported the file (to a high quality DV format) I opened it up in QuickTime 7 Pro. I created a mask which covered the frame I created in Final Cut. When I exported it the final file was a 16:9. It just wasn't a 720 16:9.

A little crude, but it worked.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Whoa... sounds technical. But I think once I start playing I will find something I like.

And you can use QT 7?? I just don't like it at all. I must be missing something. I revert back to QT 6. At least there I can crop my footage easily if I need to.

Thanks. Once I start this (if....*g*) I might have some questions. :)

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

The framing did get a little technical. But that's the stuff I like. I like puzzle solving. For me, that's most of the fun.

And my Quicktime is the Pro version which has some additional functions.

I did run into an odd aspect problem. I had 4:3 (some of which weren't exactly 4:3, some 16:9 (some of which weren't exactly 16:9), and some title sequences from Live Type. Anywhere that the Live Type clip overlaid "certain" 16:9 clips it looked okay. But where the Live Type "didn't" overlay the 16:9 clip it distorted it.

Took me all night to figure out I needed to extend the Live Type clip and just bring the opacity down to zero so it wouldn't distort the clip underneath.

Yeah, there are always new problem...