Some questions that have been bugging me
Two quick questions
I work for a community television company in Ireland, its pretty new and the staff as a whole are treating this as a learning experience (learn by experience, best kind). Anyway I am just finishing up our first project (a 7 episode series about community events across the north side of dublin city.) and in preparation of our next program (a sports show on the first irish paintball league) I have came across two issues I should have sussed *way* back at the start. 1. Its more an inquiry then anything else, The company that broadcasts our programs told us they only broadcast in 4:3 at the moment and how its done is through a program they have that stretches all images so it is 4:3, they recommend that we do not use 16:9 for any of our projects. Problem is our producer wants to shoot the next two programs in 16:9. Now I am only the lowly editor for the moment so I am not gonna step between them, but what is the recommended process in final cut pro for setting up 16:9 footage to be aired in a 4:3? If its not gonna be a good result is there anything I can say to the broadcast company or recommend to make it easier for 16:9 footage. 2. More of slight technical hitch, we shoot using jvc hd 110 cameras and its been brought to my attention that every piece of footage has a small line of black at the top and to the left of every image we have shot, while this doesnt show in the tv broadcast due to the 4:3 stretching of every image, it does show on any footage put to dvd or online. Now my original theory was that it was because the lense/camera were designed for 16:9 and the camera's own cropping was a tiny bit off. But a test shooting in 16:9 showed the same effect still at the top (but no longer to the left.) I assume this is a simple issue to fix by slight bit of cropping or setting a aspect ratio when exporting. Thats not what I am asking about, what my concern is what was the cause, as I would like to know if I messed up in final cut pro so I can correct it in future. thank you. |
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As well, what I typically will do when delivering 16:9 letterboxed material is to add font AFTER the export so that I can place text outside the 16:9 video area but still inside the title safe area of the 4:3 workspace. If you font in 16:9 title safe and then letterbox for 4:3, your text will be VERY inside safe area and will look strange, in my humble opinion. |
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