RT Letterbox, Help??

or anamorphic sequence setting (maybe i didnt understand u correctly)?

The only video card that does RT Matte Genretaion is the Aurora Igniter RT Card. There are two option for you if you are using cinewave, they also vary in price.

Option 1:

If the utmost in quality is the issue and you are uisng SDI I/O there is the EVERTZ Standard Defintion Rectilue Generator. This will make mattes, safe area markers, crosshairs, etc. all user definable. It runs about $ 4500 and is SDI I/O. It is a professional piece of broadcast equipment and you can check it out ar http://www.evertz.com. the model number is 9590.

Option 2:

If you are just making preview copies and want to kill keycode and timecode or just have a clean matte, there is the Horita MG-50. This will generate mattes, all user defined also. It's I/O is only Composite Anaolg BNC. It runs for $ 289. Check them out at http://www.hortia.com

Either one of these units would be placed between the ouput of the cinewave and your deck.

Hope this helps

What about going inot photoshop and making a black solid bg. in the alpha channel make a 1.85 matte. Import that into FCP and edit it on a second vidoe track over your footage. RT should be able to handle compositing 2 static graphic layers w/ alphas. I'll try this tomorrow when I get on the system I'm working on. Try it out and I'll let you know if it works good for me otherwise.

This Photoshop black borders idea is one I've used in the past with regular 4:3 footage that the client wanted to letterbox. Since Still graphics with Alpha are RT, this should work fine. Especially if you this in conjuction with the Cropping suggestion from Bill Davis above.

Walter