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	Dealing with letterbox footage by Aaron Neitz on May 13, 2008 at 8:10:35 pm How do you deal with letterbox footage? Obviously any work done to the blacks will affect the letterbox in Color... can't seem to find a simple way to crop the working area. 1) re-letterbox final CC when you get back to FCP 2) set up a secondary with a user shape and push letterbox back to black? not the slickest or easiest solution. thanks! Respond to this post Return to posts index


	Re: Dealing with letterbox footage by Arnie Schlissel on May 13, 2008 at 10:05:51 pm If it were me, I'd probably go with option 1. You can simply make a hard matte in Photoshop & drop that over an entire timeline, render & output. To put a secondary over each & every shot could be a pain, even if it's the same window for each one. BTW, since the letterbox is supposed to be pure black, it will probably make it a bit difficult to judge your blacks on the waveform. Good luck! Arnie Finally out of post! Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman http://www.arniepix.com/blog Respond to this post Return to posts index


	Re: Dealing with letterbox footage by Aaron Neitz on May 13, 2008 at 11:49:31 pm Exactly - on the black levels in the waveform. Perhaps a "matte" function will be added in the future, and it won't count towards the picture technicals. Respond to this post Return to posts index


	Re: Dealing with letterbox footage by Tom Matthies on May 14, 2008 at 5:29:07 pm I've been getting around it by simply cropping the black portions of the letterbox video once back in FCP.I just set up a crop that works and copy/paste it onto the other clips. Faster than rendering another matte track on top of your original tracks. Tom Respond to this post Return to posts index


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