Output 4:3 center cut from Anamorphic 16:9 source

Hi all,
I have an Anamorphic 16:9 Sequence (IMX 50) that I want to ouput to a 4:3 aspect ratio using a center cut. i.e. cutting the left and right sides of the picture off. I do not want to letter box the output.
From what I have read it is relatively easily to produce a letter boxed 4:3 output but I haven't managed to find out how to produce a center cut output.
Any ideas would be great
Thanks
Matt

Well as you say, it works ... and it seems pretty darn simple to me
I can't speak for Quicktime Conversion as I never use it. If I was looking for an alternative method (and assuming I didn't have a direct hardware center cut option from an I/O card such as the AJA mentioned above) I would use Compressor. Its easy to use, has masses of presets, and you can tweak output aspect/crop directly in the preview window so you can see exactly what you are going to get.
Using Compressor you can save your own custom preset as a droplet, then whenever you have output a 16:9 master that you want to center cut then you only need to drop it onto the droplet ... and hey presto, it'll spit out the needed file.

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