Anamorphic sequence with letterboxes

Hi
I have a sequence that was shot on an xl2 in 16:9, it was digitized in a 4:3 project and edited. I have a client who only has widescreen tv's. I made the sequence 16:9 anamorphic in my sequence settings. It still has letter boxes on it, I need to remove the letter boxes. I tried removing attributes basic motion and distortion which has been recommended a lot here. Those attributes aren't an option, the only options for video are filter and speed. I tried dumping it to tape and digitizing it into a 16:9 anamorphic project but it only logs and captures in the 4:3 ratio with letterboxes. What should I do.

To start with you shouldn't capture and edit in 4:3 if your material is anamorphic. Now you're trying to resurrect the situation that you've quite badly messed up by not capturing and editing your material properly. At this stage it's kind of hard to tell what to do, without knowing what your program actually looks like and now the material is designated. Has the material been set to anamorphic? You probably need to do that first for ALL your material. You can do that in the browser columns for multiple items. It's more difficult for items that have been edited into sequences. Does the material at this stage look correct in the 4:3 sequence, or does it have letterboxing, or does it look distorted? You can set the anamorphic flag for this material for each item, but them you have to copy and paste the content into a new 16:9 sequence, and then you'll have to remove the distortion created by having edited it into a 4:3 sequence in the first place.

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Did you create a 16:9 project in DVDSP? If you did and your material looks stretched vertically in the DVDSP viewer, make sure your asset is flagged as 16:9.
You won't see any letterboxing in DVDSP or in DVD Player as they will just display a 16:9 format screen.
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thanks for the advice.. the tutorial was helpful.
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so i've shot a bunch of stuff in squeeze mode using a dvx100b. brought that footy into fcp and edited everything in an anamorphic timeline (set up using the easy setup) and everything is looking pretty good. now comes the strange part.
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so i guess, my final goal is to have 16x9 letterboxed in 4x3. i've been exporting first to 16x9, then usng quicktime to letterbox it.
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RaySkater wrote:
when I pull that exported movie back into a Duplicated of the sequence from which I exported (clips deleted, of course) I get that squashed picture with black at right and left.
I've retraced my steps a few times and other movies I've done this with turn out OK...I don't get why this one is not able to be re-imported with the proper aspect ratio.
What version of FCP are we talking here?
This might not relate to your situation but there are situations where I've found when using FCP 6 (up to and including 6.0.2, at least) where if a DV-NTSC Anamorphic sequence doesn't contain renderable material - ie, you've just made cuts and that's it, no render files to reference or export with - exporting that sequence (as Current Settings) results in a 4:3 ratio QT movie. That is, I opened up the QT movie and it showed 640x480 as the display size.
Sorry if that's no help, but I was banging my head against a wall until I 'discovered' this issue a month or two ago...

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