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Heya guys, (and girls).
I am trying to capture from a DV VTR to Flame. (mini DV cassette)
As I understand the stuff was filmed 16/9 oriented, but I get a 3:4 stretched film on the Flame monitor. if I change the preferences to “set to 16:9” I get it 16:9, but acceding the PAL 3:4 RES. what I am aiming at is to get a 3:4 PAL RES of a film which is 16:9 but ENVELOPE style. (crop from top and bottom).
on past experience I had no problem with capturing such film in that way, but apparently I do now.. and it pissing me off…
I can capture it 3:4 and Resize the Y channel on Action, but common! there’s got to be a more gentle way to deal with that..
in short: HELP.
spetz
I think you have to set your pixel aspect ratio to
PAL D1 Anamorphic (1/1.42)if I think you meant what I thought you meant by saying:
“…d1..”
it doesn’t make much sense to me…
can you be more specific? 😉
I’m comming from a Smoke view, but is there a “resize” option somewhere either in the Library or on the input clip module?
If you RESIZE a 16×9 clip into 4×3 and set it to Letterbox then it should crop top to bottom and give you your full 16×9 picture in a letterboxed 4×3.
BKM
I did just that, and apparently if you do the resize on the Y channel only (77%), it works exactly the same.I was thinking the graphic card and filtering will damage the clip but I got the exact same results from the resize module. (by the way, there is no resize module on input, just on the output, and import/export image).
so I will settle with what I have…that’s life..
thnx anyways.
I may be misunderstanding, but if your material was indeed shot in 16:9 PAL anamorphic, where the image fills the full 720×576 “canvas”, then all you should need to do is to either set your project default aspect ratio to 16:9/1.777, or when capturing from tape, set the aspect ratio of the material being capture to 16:9.
If the material has already been captured and incorrectly flagged as 4:3, you should be able to change the aspect ratio metadata in the resize module, applying a “soft” resize which doesn’t actually change the images, just the metadata attached to them.
Note that working with anamorphic images can be a bit confusing. First, on your broadcast monitor, you will need to enable 16:9 mode to shrink the picture vertically and display it with the proper aspect ratio. On the computer monitor, the picture will still be displayed with square pixels, so everyone will look “tall and thin” on the computer monitor, but OK on the broadcast monitor. If you select “Ratio On” in the viewer controls, then the image will be displayed with the correct aspect ratio on the computer monitor, but it will be incorrect on the broadcast monitor. I suggest sticking with “Ratio Off” mode and just concentrating on the broadcast monitor.
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