Pan & Crop without combing?

I've got some 4:3 footage that I want to crop to 16:9... but it just creates combing...

Anybody any advice on how to eliminate this?

Cheers

[Edward Troxel]

What if you create a new track 1 and use a Mask instead of Pan/Crop.

'cause that would windowbox. i don't want to do any letterboxing, i want to have it full widescreen, anamorphic.

there must be a way, because even Pinnacle can do it without combing, and my widescreen TV can do it... haha

[Terry Esslinger]

I thought to get true anamorphic widescreen you had to shoot the footage that way.??

I shoot in 16:9, I output in 16:9. No masks are used. I have 4:3 footage and if I'm going to be working ona 16:9 project, I'm going to have to make the 4:3 footage 16:9 - which means, zooming in on it until the x-width fills the 16:9 frame.

No masks are being used here.

But when I zoom in on the 4:3 footage, it creates combing...

Oh wait, it seems track motion does the job... i'll just try it...

hmm, just tried both methods and all of a sudden the combing is gone... strange..

[Ian Stark]

If the aspect ratio of your source media and your project frame size differs then you may experience unwanted results (at least I have in the past).

Try turning 'maintain aspect ratio' on and off to see if that makes any difference.


Edit: Just seen your last post - got called away while I was writing my response so didn't realise you'd resolved the problem. Glad you got it sorted.

[Matthew Chaboud]

Are you rendering at "Good" or "Best" quality?

[Bill Ravens]

I've experienced the same problem. My workaround was to render out to an intermediate format like PicVideo at 720x480p, before going to my final render. This resulted in a flicker free progressive mpeg2 output. Perhaps it will also work for you going the other direction.

[Dan Bridges]

Yes, you should resize de-interlaced material, not interlaced (unless the new height is 1/4x, 1/2x or 2x the old height).

I render at 'Good' because that's the default, should I render at 'best'?

Also yeah the combing has come back on another project of mine... hmm. Maybe I should just try deinterlacing it... I suppose I should try and do it so that the deinterlacing comes BEFORE the crop?

Ahh yes, that works.

[Edward Troxel]

Originally Posted by Jonny Brady

I render at 'Good' because that's the default, should I render at 'best'?

When RESIZING - render at Best. Otherwise, Good is usually fine. You could try it both ways and see if it makes a difference.

Originally Posted by Edward Troxel

When RESIZING - render at Best. Otherwise, Good is usually fine. You could try it both ways and see if it makes a difference.

ah so you mean like, if I'm blowing up a 4:3 image to fill a 16:9 frame, I should render at best?

[Edward Troxel]

Especially if you're zooming in on a photo (for example). Pan/Crop uses the full resolution of the underlying media where Track Motion zooms in on the video frame.

Originally Posted by Edward Troxel

Especially if you're zooming in on a photo (for example). Pan/Crop uses the full resolution of the underlying media where Track Motion zooms in on the video frame.

oh... so is it not wise of me to zoom in on a 4:3 event using track motion? 'cause that's what i've done, then I've used pan/crop to pan and scan... what exactly is track motion for then?

[Edward Troxel]

I generally use Pan/Crop to zoom IN and/or crop.

I generally use Track Motion to zoom OUT and adjust position.