Frame accurate 16:9 to 4:3 transistion

hi all,
I need your help!
For testing purposes I need to create a stream that is frame accurate for that at exactly 5 mins into a stream the video will go from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio and then after x mins goes to 16:9 Pan Scan and then after x mins go to 4:3 and then after x mins go to 16:9.
Ultimately this will have to be turned into an accurate packetised transport stream (MPEG-2 PAL) will transistioing aspect ratio.
My colleague has suggested creating in FCP 6 the clips individual and placing them as a playlist in Quicktime player (and pumping out to an external MPEG-2 encoder), but I really want to have timestamping and timecode also on the video (I know I want the world)
BTW: I have been cheeky and cross posted on FCP and Compressor forums
Kind Regards for any help
Excelsior01

I do not believe that you can mix frame sizes - which is essentially what you're asking - within a single stream. It's either a 16:9 frame (with 4:3 material pillarboxed) or a 4:3 frame (with 16:9 material letterboxed).
As suggested (but without ever having attempted this myself), you could use some type of playlist function to slice the movie segments together. But I'm not sure that you as the content author can enable that - it would be up to the broadcaster/distributor to do that. Even then, frame size isn't typically a variable that allowed to change from segment to segment.

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Wondering if this is a known issue? our engineer has done extensive testing to prove that the behavior is correct pre 10.1. With AS2 and AS3. With FMS 3.5.6 and 4.0. With smart seeking and not. With smart seeking even the player realizing that it seeked to the wrong time! Unfortunately we cannot tell our customers to not upgrade to 10.1. Many of them already have 10.3
sample files mentioned in this report can be found here
http://d1yb9lkqglrfzu.cloudfront.net/PlayerSeekTestAS3.zip
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and later – netstream.seek in a fms rtmp stream seeks an additional frame
Product:
Adobe Flash Player
Version:
10.1 or later
Platform:
PC
Operating system:
Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 Ultimate
Summary:
Seeking into a rtmp stream served by Flash Media Server using netstream.seek(offset) will seek an additional frame when played in Adobe Flash Player version 10.1 or later.
Description:
There is a sample video player included (PlayerSeekTestAS3.swf) to help reproduce this issue. The player allows loading a stream, playing/pausing it and seeking to a specified time or frame. For testing purposes there is also included a burnt-in timecode mp4 file (timecodeSample.mp4), but the issue can be observed using one of the sample files included in the Flash Media Server 4.0 installation (like Adobe/Flash Media Server 4/applications/vod/media/ sample1_1500kbps.f4v).
Steps to reproduce:
Open the sample player (PlayerSeekTestAS3.swf) in Adobe Flash Player version earlier than 10.1 (tested using versions WIN 10,0,2,54, WIN 10,0,12,36, WIN 10,0,22,87, WIN 10,0,32,18, WIN 10,0,42,34 and WIN 10,0,45,2).
Write a valid rtmp stream url in the url text box of the sample player and click Load button (this creates a netConnection). If the connection is successful it creates a new netStream and plays it).
After the video has started to play, click the Pause Button (this calls netStream.togglePause function).
Seek to a specified time by writing it in the “Seek to time” textbox and clicking the associated GO button. (this calls netStream.pause() and then netStream.seek(time)). If testing with file timecodeSample.mp4, seek to time 10. If testing with sample1_1500kbps.f4v seek to time 5.
Repeat the same steps using a version of Adobe Flash Player later than 10.1.
Open the sample player (PlayerSeekTestAS3.swf) in Adobe Flash Player version later than 10.1 (tested using versions WIN 10,1,53,64, WIN 10,2,153,2, and WIN 10,3,181,14).
Write the same rtmp stream url in the url text box of the sample player and click Load button.
After the video has started to play click the Pause Button.
Seek to the same time as before by writing it in the “Seek to time” textbox and clicking the associated GO button. If testing with file timecodeSample.mp4, seek to time 10. If testing with sample1_1500kbps.f4v seek to time 5.
Expected result:
The same frame should be displayed in the video section of the sample player after the sequence of steps described above.
Actual result:
When using Adobe Flash Player later than version 10.1 the same sequence of steps will have sought an additional frame so the frames displayed in the video section of the sample player do not match.
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timecode: 03:44:18:24 in Adobe Flash Player earlier than 10.1
timecode : 03:44:18:25 in Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later
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Additional info:
The issue is reproducible only for FMS streams and it has been reproduced using Flash Media Server 3.5.5, 3.5.6 and 4.0.
The sample player displays the current player version and type, it polls and displays the netStream.time property and in Adobe Flash Player versions later than 10.1 it allows checking a Smart Seek check box before loading the stream. When Smart Seek is on, the netStream.time value seems to be correct (when not using smart seek the netStream.time will always take the value of the offset sent in netStream.seek(offset)) and based on that we can use netStream.step to step to the correct frame.
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The same can be observed when testing with file sample1_1500kbps.f4v in Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or later:
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Message was edited by: Bill Hunt

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OBastien wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Chris.
>
> I tried different possible solutions you listed but it's
not working.
> Disabling sound had no effects. Changing the FPS is not
an option, it has to be
> 25 FPS. I lowered the resolution to 300 something, it
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>
> I think it is really sad that we have to try different
settings in the hope
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disapointed in Adobe. I'm
> pretty sure it is the fault of Adobe and not Apple,
because I don't have does
> problems with Quicktime in ToonBoom Harmony. What is
strange is when I do an
> AVI export I never noticed a dropped frame. I'm not
using AVI video right now
> because I can not find a codec that gives me small size,
fast encoding times,
> the ability to seek in the movie by dragging the
timeline progress bar, and the
> possibility to edit in After Effects. If you know an AVI
codec that does all
> that it would be really great news.
>
> Thank you again,
> Olivier.
>

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