Pan-Scan and Letterbox??????
What is the difference in the Display Mode of 16x9 Pan-Scan then 16x9 Pan-Scan and Letterbox???
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Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4), FCP 6.0.3
What you want to use is Letterbox, not Pan & Scan or Pan & Scan/Letterbox. (Using both allows the user to choose which one)
From the manual (do a search for Pan-Scan for more info in the PDF/manual)
Broad stroke - Pan-Scan uses "vectors" to control what part of a video is shown.
Final Cut and DVD SP cannot add the vectors and if you set the playback it may lead to results you do not want (i.e., only center part of the video being shown.)
Practically if you shot 16:9 and really shot with 4:3 in mind, the outside areas may not be needed, but you need to look at the footage....
From the manual (do a search for Pan-Scan for more info in the PDF/manual)
The pan-scan method of displaying 16:9 video on a 4:3 Monitor was developed as a compromise between letterbox, which displays all the video content but with black bars at the top and bottom, and the only other alternative: filling the enitre 4:3 screen, but cropping some of the content.
Broad stroke - Pan-Scan uses "vectors" to control what part of a video is shown.
Final Cut and DVD SP cannot add the vectors and if you set the playback it may lead to results you do not want (i.e., only center part of the video being shown.)
Practically if you shot 16:9 and really shot with 4:3 in mind, the outside areas may not be needed, but you need to look at the footage....