Anamorphic widescreen

I have video (DV) in 4:3 but also shot one wrong in anamorphic widescreen.
Can I import the anamorphic into FCE into the same sequence where the 4:3 on is?

thanks Tom.
I assumed it would be letter-boxed -> that means I could enlarged a little to move the letter box out of the screen as long as the video looks acceptable.

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Changing sequence from 16:9 widescreen to anamorphic widescreen

I am working on a short video clip shot using 5D Mark II - 1080p. I am editing on FCP 7 and want to change my sequence from 16:9 to anamorphic widescreen without any distortion...anyway this can be done? All my raw files and transcoded file are 16:9.
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Sid

sure. fcp will automatically adjust this when you edit a clip into the sequence, so after changes the sequence settings, simply edit a source clip at the end of the sequence. Does it display correctly? If so, select the clip, copy, and then select all the other clips in the sequence, hit option-v (paste attributes) and make sure just basic motion and distort are checked. Should fix everything. Then delete that clip you added at the end of the sequence.
Oh yeah, probably a good idea to duplicate your sequence before doing this, in case you make a mistake (or if I've made a mistake - nah, that wouldn't happen).
good luck.

Creating anamorphic widescreen dvds

Does iDVD (in combination with iMovie) now produce anamorphic widescreen DVDs from a 16:9 camcorder source?
I'm currently using iLife '05, and the DVDs it produces are not anamorphic widescreen, which means when I play them back on DVD Player, they have a 2" border on all sides of the screen.

Andrew,
You are talking about two different issues with iLife 05 - Importing anamorphic video into iMovie HD (in iLife 05) and then burning anamorphic 16:9 DVDs with iDVD.
Many 16:9 cameras work great with iMovieHD. I even created anamorphic 16:9 DV files with both iPhoto and PhotoToMovie that also worked great with iMovieHD (05). However, some cameras do have the pillarboxing issues you pointed out and Matti referenced. I do not know whether or not this was fixed for your camcorder for iLife06.
The second issue iLife05 has is how it creates 16:9 anamorphic video in iDVD5. Actaully this does work correctly! It's only the conversion of the anamorphic 16:9 to letterboxed 4:3 for 4:3 TV's that is an issue. If you take a "good" 16:9 anamorphic movie in iMovie and transfer it to iDVD5, it does encode as anamorphic - it just doesn't set the flag right for display on 4:3 TVs.....they are full screen 16:9 anamorphic DV for 16:9 displays, and play correctly on my 16:9 plasma TV at the normal WS setting with no distortion, just like commercial WS DVDs. If this were not an anamorphic signal, I would have to use the "zoom" setting, which is how I view letterboxed cable shows. If you read David Althoff's site carefully, you will note that iDVD5 can use 16:9 encoding, but the playback flag is not forced to letterbox it for 4:3 displays.
Now I'm not saying that you haven't had the issue of getting 4:3 encoding....and your 2 inch border does suggest that! I think your main problem is the import of the movie into iMovie in the first place is creating 4:3 video, and once you've got that, iDVD isn't going to fix it.
You need to make sure that your start a 16:9 WS DV project, and then import your video with the preferences "unchecked" as Matti suggests.
And what kind of camera do you have???
John B.

Anamorphic Widescreen Not Working

I have anamorphic widescreen movies that play correctly in QuickTime, but when I play them directly in iTunes, they play in the anamorphic aspect ratio instead of their intended aspect ratio. Does iTunes just not understand anamorphic? It's hard to believe that such a mature program just wouldn't know how to play anamorphic widescreen, especially since Apple has it working with QuickTime. I've looked for settings, but can't find any that would fix this.
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While I am at it: Is it possible to make your own menus in iDVD or do you have to relay on the build-in themes?
Hope these help & good luck:
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=66079
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=67633
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=29770
http://www.dvdthemepak.com/idvd.html
http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=31388

IDVD won't trigger anamorphic widescreen flag

After I edit in FCEHD and export to quicktime and then put that quicktime in IDVD it doesn't put it back in anamorphic widescreen... is there anyway to fix this?

OK... I went into my Pro apps and took notes. This is what works for me (in iDVD 5.0.1). I tested on a short 20 second video clip.
While in Final Cut Pro (5): Export/Using Compressor...
In Compressor Preview window, select file in pop-up on upper-left side of window.
Click on the Batch window.
Click on Setting button and choose Advanced Format Conversions, then DV NTSC Anamorphic.
In Inspector: Click on Encoder button. Click on Video: Settings button and choose DV/DVCPRO-NTSC from pop-up. In Compressor section, Select Quality-Best, Scan Mode-Interlaced, Aspect Ratio-16:9, click OK. If you want to save this as a Custom setting (you should) click Save As... and give it a name like "Widescreen." It will show up at the bottom of the Setting pop-up in the Batch window next time you need it.
Back to the Batch window. From Setting, select your Custom setting. Then select Destination. Then click Submit.
Batch Monitor opens and shows progress. Double-click the file created in your destination location. Mine will show 720x405.
Simple, eh? I did that without consulting a manual.
I hope it works for others!!!

SD file "becoming" anamorphic widescreen...?

I work at a university and we currently shoot performances in SD and capture to an older G4 with FCP 4.5 (multi-cam through a Grass Valley switcher, converted to firewire for capture through a JVC miniDV deck, if any of that matters). Anyway, I'm using the standard preset captures (NTSC Firewire DV, or whatever the basic one is) and everything appears fine on the capture system. However, we transfer it to a computer in our lab running FCP7 (new iMac) to edit and burn to DVD, or whatever delivery method we need.
Anyway, the problem is, when we open it in FCP7, the frame is stretched to widescreen. Checking the format of the clip, the anamorphic field is checked. Unchecking this corrects the issue. Looking at the preview in the finder back on the G4 it was captured on, it is still stretched to widescreen, but opening it up in FCP4.5 it is 4:3 (and the anamorphic field is unchecked). I've double-checked the capture preset we're using and any reference to anamorphic is blank. How does it become anamorphic the moment you look at it outside of the version of FCP it was captured in (while even still on the capture system's Finder), yet returns to normal when you bring it back into that version? And more importantly, what am I overlooking to change so I don't have to constantly change it once we get it down to the edit suite?
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Fairly certain I'm not...
When I check the clip's info (right-click on it in the bin) on the G4 machine (with FCP4.5), anamorphic is unchecked. I opened up the Easy Setup and the current setup was Custom (but no anamorphic--was custom because it was set up from the DV-NTSC setting, but device control changed to non-controllable device since it's a live source). Opening up the Capture window and going to the Capture Settings tab showed Capture/Input as DV NTSC 48kHz (not anamorphic).
I went ahead and just reset the Easy Setup and changed it to non-controllable device again, in case something was screwed up and it just didn't show. Guess I'll try to record something and see how it turns out now. Worst case, we'll just always uncheck anamorphic once we get the clip into the FCP7 editor.

Anamorphic widescreen or letterbox output to iDVD?

I'm kicking myself.
We recorded our footage of a school play in 16X9 mode, edited tape to tape then, imported to a Final Cut Express project set to NTSC Anamorphic mode in "Easy Set-Up" and now can't figure out how to get widescreen or even letterbox output to iDVD.
The video appears letterboxed in FCE's preview window. But for kicks, I exported a short clip and burned an iDVD of it and it was streched on my set-top dvd player and 4X3 TV.
If the widescreen version would be truly anamorphic and appear letterboxed on standard (old) 4x3 screens, but actually scale up and fill a new widescreen monitor that would be great.
But at this point I'd accept a good, old-fashioned letterboxed version of the video. HDtv users be damned!
Any help? Hacks? Etc. P.S. I also posted this question in the FCE forum where someone suggested I ask it here.
Doing this on a 1Gig Powerbook with 1Gig of ram. iDVD 5 and FCE 2.?

Scalzmoney,
The link on the previous post will work for you, I have done this.
First use the Anamorphicizer
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
to make iDVD5 see your movie as anamorphic. (iDVD5 is only looking for WS projects from iMovieHD, and this app does the trick for FCE/FCP projects)
Once this is done you'll fill up 16:9 TVs, and the video will letterbox on some 4:3 TVs/players combinations, but will appear "squished" on some 4:3 TVs/players. Changing the settings on some DVD players will help, but not all.
That's where you need David A's "cookbook" as listed & linked your first reply, above.
I've hacked several DVDs this way. For example, if I make a WS DVD without the cookbook, it plays as letterbox on 2 out of 3 DVD players in my house (not counting Macs). The cookbook fixes it for that last DVD player, a PS2.
John B.

Change 4:3 footage to 4:3 anamorphic (widescreen)

Hello All,
I have taken some footage on my Canon Ixus camera in AVI format. I have converted it to 4:3 Quicktime Movie format 720 X 576, but now I want it to match all the other footage I took with my camcorder which is 4:3 in widescreen. All my other footage has black bars top and bottom which I prefer. How can I do this?

Highlight the clips and select Video Filters>Matte>Mask Shape and adjust the horizontal and vertical sliders to make it match the rest of your widescreen foootage.
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Yes.
It sounds like you want to do "letterboxing". To do this, try the following:
1. Click on the project you are working on.
2. Select File->Project Properties.
3. Set the Aspect Ratio to "Standard (4:3)" and click "OK".
4. Click "Edit Project" (if you aren't already in that mode).
5. Hover the mouse close to the beginning of the first clip you have in your project, and you will see a sprocket wheel button with a down-arrow on it. Click on that button.
6. Select "Cropping & Rotation".
7. On the preview pane toward the upper left, there are two buttons: "Fit" and "Crop", and "Crop" is probably already selected. Click on "Fit", and click "Done".
Voila!
You may have to repeat Steps 5 through 7 for as many clips as you have in your project.
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1.77 widescreen and still letterboxed!

I have a 1024x768 widescreen (16x9) 42" plasma (HD Ready). Mac Mini connected with HDMI and set to 1024x768 stretched. I picked a movie which is exactly 1.77 aspect ratio (16x9) and when played using Front Row or DVD Player, I get a black bar on top and on the bottom. Shouldn't it fill the entire screen?

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16:9 Widescreen / possible?

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I just finished editing a widescreen DV movie in iMovie with no problems. When I drag it to iDVD it is in the 4:3 ratio. IF YOU CAN EDIT IN WIDESCREEN USING IMOVIE 5 WHY CAN'T YOU ALSO EDIT IN WIDESCREEN IN IDVD 5? WHY AREN'T THEY COMPATIBLE WITH ONE ANOTHER? WHY MAKE POSSIBLE IN IMOVIE THINGS THAT IDVD CANNOT HANDLE? THIS DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME..... I have done searches to find out what to do. I downloaded Anamorphicizer and dragged the iMovie file in and get a message "unknown error". I tried to "share" to Quicktime and get the message, "movie cannot be sent to Quicktime because of an unknown error. This is a one hour video that I have spent days editing. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Have you read this: Anamorphic widescreen in iDVD 5 at http://capital2.capital.edu/admin-staff/dalthoff/widescreen.html

In widescreen format, my camcorder captures as 4x3 letterbox. Help!!!!!!!!

I want to make a widescreen video.
My camcorder (Panasonic NV-GS17) is set to cinema mode, on screen this appears as 4x3 letterbox.
I read up on the whole widescreen thing and learn that it is probably something called anamorphic widescreen but when I capture it in FCP, it's quite obviously 4x3 letterbox that's coming out of the camera.
I'm able to take this into the sequence and stretch it to 133% to get the right effect but this is a bit of a hassle.
How can I capture the video from my camcorder, into FCP and have it automatically crop and stretch the video to the correct format.
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When I switch to Firewire PAL Anamorphic, the same image appears but this time squished and distorted with even thicker bars at the top and bottom.
From this I can tell that the video is actually coming out of the camcorder as 4x3 letterbox, i.e. the camera is taking the normal image and placing a black bar at the top and bottom.
I know that this way I am losing a whole tonne of quality and that anamorphic would be a much better way to go, but my camcorder won't do anamorphic and I'm not going to spend money on a new camcorder or an anamorphic lens adapter just yet.
Now I've worked out that I can edit my entire video in this 4x3 letterbox format and at the end, create a new sequence as anamorphic , drag in the sequence I've created and zoom it to 133%.
This will work fine for me (I don't mind about the lack of quality, it's just a hobby). However, I would of course prefer to be able to capture the video with letterbox removed and converted to full PAL anamorphic this way it would be easier to work mix and match with genuine anamorphic at the same time as footage from this non-anamorphic camera.
It seems odd, surely this problem quite common with low cost camcorders, I would have thought that final cut pro would be prepared for this sort of thing.

Media Encoder DV Widescreen same as DV?

Hi folks,
I used Adobe Media Encoder to convert some widescreen H.264 video (720p) to DV. I tried converting it to DV Widescreen, and then DV, in a separate file, to see what the difference was.
To my surprise, they looked identical! They were both 720x480, and had slim dark gray bands on the left and right, and thick dark gray bars at the top and bottom.
Isn't there supposed to be a difference between these two formats?
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Lyle

Widescreen output choices for dvd????

Ok...my film looks great...I'm close to output. I lucked out with an iohd so I can actually see what my 4:3 letterboxed 24p progressive footage looks like brought up to 720 and 1080psf or interlaced....
But first I'm going to output a couple of quicktime files .
Questions:
1. I've been outputting my sequence to non self contained quicktime files with current settings. This file I then have sent to compressor to create my mpeg2 and sound file...looks fine. WHY DO SOME PEOPLE SUGGEST CHECKING THE "MAKE MOVIE SELF CONTAINED" BOX AT THIS FIRST STEP.
2. I am considering first doing a widescreen version and am not worrying about the hdcam up-res hd files yet in the meantime to create an SD WIDESCREEN that would fill up a widescreen tv do you suggest:
a. dropping my 4:3 letterbox into a 16:9 sequence, and when I get to compressor where I'd crop it so it opens wide? I know to crop top and bottom by entering "30" in those boxes, do I also crop the sides as my 4:3 letterbox is actually a windowbox?
or
b. they say DON'T DO THIS but I found if I just scaled up to 135 with the quicktime NON CONTAINED movie I create with my current settings of my 4:3 letterbox sequence, when I look at it on a widescreen I'm not seeing much distortion at all compared to just upscaling BEFORE I send it to be made into a quicktime where of course I see the stepladers, etc...even the letters look good...they say it can't be done but WHY am I seeing it looking as good as this?

Nick, I apologize for typing in such a way you hear shouting. My experience is capital letters in the real world as used in this context are to draw attention to the emphasis in this case the question within a question...I could have used italics, I could have used a special color, it was easiest to capitalize...they've been used this way in business correspondence for decades where in fact I can attest to this fact from my years as a typist/temp secretary in huge corporations. The only way you wouldn't know this is if you've never had an office job. I think the world has enough aggression in the world without signing into apple posts and being accused and commanded to correct perceived affronts in regard to the use of my fonts which in this case were industry standard. The only impropriety I'm aware of online for use of capitalizing is when an entire post is done this way and usually including aggressive language. I would appreciate respectful communication on here. If you don't want to respond to my post because of how you think my behavior is I'll wait for remedies elsewhere I am under the wire with my work right now and don't feel like signing on here and being under attack or intimidated.
1. I'm concerned about quality...when I do a non self contained quicktime before sending it to compressor where my permanent mpeg2 is made, is there no difference in quality loss or additional compression with a self contained quicktime compared to the non-self contained? I do understand the self contained concept say if I wanted to take the file without my original files elsewhere but for what I'm doing now to create the mpeg2 it would be good to know if there's a difference.
2. I am not a professional I never saw the "center cut" language before but I think this is the same as "windowbox" which mattes off as opposed to "letterbox". I have 4:3 footage ntsc from the dvx100. I then put bars across the top and bottom as a matte...when I drop this into a 16:9 sequence I then have space on the sides and the top and bottom. If I blow this up for a widescreen sd output, it was as I asked above...can I create an anamorphic widescreen version by dropping in this footage into a 16:9 timeline and then cropping it in compressor that will look better blown up this way then blowing up the quicktime file I create to 135 percent which will fill a 16:9 widescreen tv? And do I crop the sides as well as the top and bottom if I do this and how much do I crop off the sides as I'm already aware you do a crop of 30 on the top and bottom?
Thank you

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