Dealing with letterbox footage
by Aaron Neitz
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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.
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.
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