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Aspect Ratio and You: A Basic Tutorial for Vidders

Jul 13, 2009 13:40

[Note: I made this for some folks in my vid group who were having some letterbox issues. Hopefully others will find it interesting, also ( Read more... )

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Mixed aspect ratios littleheaven70 July 13 2009, 23:52:51 UTC

I had a lot of fun with aspect ratios when vidding Buffy and Angel, because the first few seasons of each were filmed in 4:3 and the rest were in 16:9. My first couple of vids had mixed aspect ratios and I didn't realise that was "a very bad thing" until someone pointed it out to me ( ... )

Re: Mixed aspect ratios sg_betty July 14 2009, 00:08:29 UTC

Why couldn't you use Pan/crop to focus on their faces, rather than cutting them off?

Re: Mixed aspect ratios littleheaven70 July 14 2009, 00:35:02 UTC

Well you could, but that would cut quite a lot of the bottom of the frame off. I've never done it that way around, but when I've seen it done by others it often results in severed heads. Maybe they just ran everything to avisynth or some other programme to uniformly crop all their footage to the right size without editing every clip individually for severed heads. *shrug*

I guess when you think about it, your subject tends to fill more of the image top to bottom than they do side to side, so you lose less overall going the other way. That's my own personal preference.

Re: Mixed aspect ratios sg_betty July 14 2009, 00:53:57 UTC

There was tons of good stuff about all of that at the links. Well, the first one is basically an explanation of aspect ratio and a chart for people showing films, but the others are just chock-full of really useful methods and information. I plan on absorbing it like a sponge. ;)