Craig Parkes
March 20th, 2007, 07:51 PM
Just looking for an indication of advisable workflows for someone with a Final Cut Studio setup, so FCP, Compressor and DVD Studio Pro are my available tools.
I've got a Project which was acquired in 4:3 DVCAM, has been mastered to a letterboxed Digibeta, and I have a MiniDV output.
I'm looking at doing an output to DVD, but want to utilise the feature I've been reading about of most DVD players to play 16:9 without letterboxing on widescreen TV's and letterbox on regular TV's. I understand if I just output the straight file, it will only playback in the letterbox form.
Anyone had any experienced cropping a 4:3 letterboxed master, then outputting the cropped result as 16:9 file for DVD encoding?
Advised workflows, cleve ideas, problems I could face?
Obviously I'll be losing resolution AND blowing up the picture when it is output to a widescreen TV so there could be pixelation, but I would rather give them the option of watching full screen than watching both a simultaneously letter and pillboxed image to get the proper aspect ratio.
(The project was a short film, and we decided to master to letterbox because the majority of uses for the master would be screenings at from digital projectors.)
I've got a Project which was acquired in 4:3 DVCAM, has been mastered to a letterboxed Digibeta, and I have a MiniDV output.
I'm looking at doing an output to DVD, but want to utilise the feature I've been reading about of most DVD players to play 16:9 without letterboxing on widescreen TV's and letterbox on regular TV's. I understand if I just output the straight file, it will only playback in the letterbox form.
Anyone had any experienced cropping a 4:3 letterboxed master, then outputting the cropped result as 16:9 file for DVD encoding?
Advised workflows, cleve ideas, problems I could face?
Obviously I'll be losing resolution AND blowing up the picture when it is output to a widescreen TV so there could be pixelation, but I would rather give them the option of watching full screen than watching both a simultaneously letter and pillboxed image to get the proper aspect ratio.
(The project was a short film, and we decided to master to letterbox because the majority of uses for the master would be screenings at from digital projectors.)