16:9 Pan Scan or Letterbox or Both ?????

Letterbox is your only real choice. Pan-Scan never was fully implemented.

16:9 letterbox

16:9 Pan-scan & Letterbox does work

16:9 Pan-scan & Letterbox will work just fine. If the view chooses to view a 16:9 piecce of footage in the pan & scan mode on a 4:3 screen it will show a center cut of the footage. If you have pan & scan information to will also work as expected.


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ap_TonyTony wrote:
16:9 Pan-scan & Letterbox does work

16:9 Pan-scan & Letterbox will work just fine. If the view chooses to view a 16:9 piecce of footage in the pan & scan mode on a 4:3 screen it will show a center cut of the footage.

I would consider that to be "not working". It should not be cropping off the left and right sides of the image on a 4:3 screen. And if it does, it should pan to show the action that might be going on, but it doesn't do that either. So I would say it is not working. Stick with 16:9 Letterbox.

Hi guys,

My problem is that I captured all my footage already in 16:9 letterboxed and when I burn a DVD of my project with DSP 4 and play it on my HDTV it still letterboxes the image not only creating bars on the top and bottom but on the right and left side as well, thus not showing my video in my HDTV's full screen. Can anyone help me?

If I turn on the anamorphic settings in the FCP 6.04 sequnce and or in DSP 4, the image does fill my HDTV screen but it squahes it, with bottom and top letterbox bars still showing.

I'd appreciate a response back to my email in case I can't find this thread again:

robertomena2000@hotmail.com

Thanks!

Sorry Robert,

But if you shot your footage in "16:9 Letterbox", that means you've got 4:3 footage, and there's nothing you can do except reshoot with the proper aspect.

In order to get full screen on 16:9 TV's, you'll need to acquire in 16:9 Anamorphic.

Rule of all thumbs for shooting wide: Never let your camera or editing system letterbox. That's the job only of the DVD player while displaying the wide footage on 4:3 TV's.

Take care,

Trai

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