Re: inset padding in compressor = different blacks in letterbox

I've just noticed the same thing.

I usually render out of FCP but this week had a bottleneck and rendered my HD to SD down conversion out of Compressor and now I see these darn grey letterbox bars.

My workflow:
1080i50 Prores HQ master quicktime into compressor
Prores HQ recompressor with custom downsizing in the Geometry tab using the 16:9 padding option which correctly situates the 16:9 frame within the 4:3 letterbox.

And et viola! grey letterbox bars. ??????? and this from a pro-application. Perhaps if I hadn't had to play this movie out 3 times due to various technical issues I'd be a bit more sanguine about it. Really Apple.

(i've been a mac fanboy for longer than I've known my wife but like Steve Job's health, my fanboy credits are almost all GONE! not that Apple even bother to read these comments.)

Llewelyn


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