16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footage)

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16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footage)

Postby EkaCoralian » Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:25 pm

I'm just going to assume that this section mainly deals with footage, so I hope its ok to post here. =s

So I have these nice-quality episodes of a show all on my computer for AMV purposes and such. Thing is, the show is is 4:3 and the episodes themselves are in 16:9, making the footage look slightly stretched (I did not change the aspect ratio of the footage, it is literally stretched as 16:9).
So I guess I want to make the footage 4:3, but the problem is that every time I place the episode in Vegas, set the properties to the normal 4:3 setting and fiddle around with the aspect ratio of the episode, when its in 4:3 a huge chunk of the footage from each side of the shots is taken to make it 4:3.
I'd rather like to keep all of my footage in the same shot rather than make it 4:3 and only focus on a specific part in the middle in the shot.

Here's what I've done:
Properties set to 4:3 AR.
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Clip inputted (in original 16:9 form).
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4:3 option selected for clip.
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Lots of area cut from clip, only focused in the middle. :[
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby mirkosp » Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:04 am

To my better knowledge, Eureka 7 is 4:3.
You should probably just do something like
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crop(8,0,-8,0)
spline36resize(640,480)

in AviSynth and then just edit at 640x480 in Vegas.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby Phantasmagoriat » Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:38 am

Yeah, my initial thoughts are to just use avisynth, but if you are using BD footage, you'll want to use a larger 4:3 resolution:
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spline36resize(960,720)

If you can't do that, you can do it in your editor... if you trust their resizers >.>
First set your Project Properties the way you intend to render:
Width: 960
Height: 720
PAR: 1.00000

Then, in your timeline, right-click the footage you want to fix:
Properties > Media > and change PAR to 4:3 (1.333333)
Note: for whatever reason, some editors may require the inverse of that... so 3:4 (0.7500)

Make sure to use the same settings as in Project Properties for everything else, including any effects, and rendering.

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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby Cannonaire » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:07 am

It looks like there is a settings mismatch in Vegas... let me explain. You set your PAR correctly in the project settings, but you also need to set it to that for every video clip you import (very annoying, but this is actually pretty much the best way you can do things). Just right click on the project media files and change the PAR. If that still doesn't help, I could probably take a look at some sample footage and try to help you figure it out. Any scene with a real circle in it should help.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby mirkosp » Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:50 am

Not sure if Eureka Seven got BDs aside for the movie, but if it did, it's an upscale from 480, so doing 960x720 should be discouraged...
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby Phantasmagoriat » Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:59 pm

mirkosp wrote:Not sure if Eureka Seven got BDs aside for the movie, but if it did, it's an upscale from 480, so doing 960x720 should be discouraged...
Oh IDK, even if it is an upscale, it'll still look better than 480p... unless they did a crappy upscale, which can happen.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby EkaCoralian » Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:06 pm

Eureka seveN got released on BD in Japan, but just not in English yet (to my knowledge).
Anyways the 960x720 thing seems to have worked (I think). I didn't even know the Media tab existed to be perfectly honest. =s
Does this look about right?
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby mirkosp » Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:23 pm

It does, though I seriously would discourage keeping an upscaled res. E7 is a BONES anime, and BONES, even nowadays, doesn't go beyond 960x540 (even star driver BDs were just that), so an even older and 4:3 show has certainly no chance of being 720p and just a very very slim one of being 540p.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby Phantasmagoriat » Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:27 pm

Looks alright to me.

As long as your video completely fills your 960x720 canvas (doesn't have any black bars on the edges) it probably worked.
An alternative method would be to right-click a clip, and uncheck "Maintain aspect ratio" so that the clip is forced to use the height and width in your Project Properties.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby Cannonaire » Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:47 pm

EkaCoralian wrote:Eureka seveN got released on BD in Japan, but just not in English yet (to my knowledge).
Anyways the 960x720 thing seems to have worked (I think). I didn't even know the Media tab existed to be perfectly honest. =s
Does this look about right?
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What resolution was your footage originally? Was it 720x480, or was it higher res? If it was originally 720x480, there was no need to upscale.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby Mister Hatt » Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:16 am

As I have access to the original footage masters, I can confirm that yes, it's an upscale, and also not widescreen. Most encoders went for 960x720 on the BD rips but it was animated at 720x540 iirc, and probably textured at 480p. Also I believe the series BD had an English audio track but too lazy to confirm.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:05 am

Cannonaire wrote:
EkaCoralian wrote:Eureka seveN got released on BD in Japan, but just not in English yet (to my knowledge).
Anyways the 960x720 thing seems to have worked (I think). I didn't even know the Media tab existed to be perfectly honest. =s
Does this look about right?
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What resolution was your footage originally? Was it 720x480, or was it higher res? If it was originally 720x480, there was no need to upscale.

It came from a blueray - it was most likely 1920x1080 pillarboxed. They're having a meta-discussion on the fact that the animation studio did an upscale on what was drawn from the animators to make that blueray in the first place. To be completely honest, such discussions aren't much more relevant than pointing out the animations were also probably done at 12fps, and therefore implying that you shouldn't make your AMV more than 12fps either.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby mirkosp » Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:40 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:To be completely honest, such discussions aren't much more relevant than pointing out the animations were also probably done at 12fps, and therefore implying that you shouldn't make your AMV more than 12fps either.

Except things like pans and effects are generally done at 23.976 regardless and animation itself is less about framerate and more about smoothness. You find whole seconds with a static frame and in the more action intense parts you'd see a complete 24fps sequence. Also, while editing, you'll be doing your own shakes/pans/etc, so those will still benefit from 23.976.
Detail however... unless you feel like drawing each frame again, there's no way to fix the lack of it. You'll be doing your own effects at a higher res, and that will just make the source and effects contrast: footage will be blurry, your effects quite sharp and detailed, and such a contrast will be just odd and jarring. Unless you go all the way and blur out the effects to match the footage, but at that point you could just edit at the actual res, after all.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby Mister Hatt » Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:10 am

I w'd, has BasharOfTheAges never seen a Japanese BD? Pillarboxing, really. It's 1440x1080i.
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Re: 16:9 Footage to 4:3 Footage (without cutting away footag

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:20 am

Only Japanese BRDs I have are 16:9. No idea how they do the 4:3 stuff. The m2ts's DVDFab gives me are full 1080p though. *shrug*
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