Laurence Kingston
March 27th, 2010, 02:42 PM
I appreciate that First Light will let you crop aspect ratios to match what you get with anamorphic film cameras. That's cool, but I would use a 4:3 crop a lot more.
Why you might ask in this era of progressive modes and 16:9 video? Because I do a lot of work for a local church with projectors and 4:3 screens. I usually end up doing 16:9 and 4:3 versions of every project.
What happens is that I'll do my 16:9 edit, then I'll do a 4:3 version when I'm happy with the 16:9 one. Then someone will look it over and suggest a few changes. At that point I have to go and make the changes twice: once in each version. It would be so much easier to crop the widescreen frames in First Light and move the centers for the 4:3 frames. Then I could do my 16:9 edit and switch between framings in First Light. Slight editing changes to both versions could be done once instead of twice.
Just an idea.
Why you might ask in this era of progressive modes and 16:9 video? Because I do a lot of work for a local church with projectors and 4:3 screens. I usually end up doing 16:9 and 4:3 versions of every project.
What happens is that I'll do my 16:9 edit, then I'll do a 4:3 version when I'm happy with the 16:9 one. Then someone will look it over and suggest a few changes. At that point I have to go and make the changes twice: once in each version. It would be so much easier to crop the widescreen frames in First Light and move the centers for the 4:3 frames. Then I could do my 16:9 edit and switch between framings in First Light. Slight editing changes to both versions could be done once instead of twice.
Just an idea.