Dig Cut jumps from 16x9 to 4x3!
by Dudley Saunders
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Jul 24, 2008 at 12:09:20 am
This is bizarre: I've got a project, shot widescreen on a Canon XL2, edited with titles created in 16x9 windows on a new Media Composer with Mojo. On layoff to DV, I watch the monitor on the DSR-25 and 5 clips jump from what looks like a letterbox to a full-screen anamorphic 4x3 image. These shots come, in some cases, from the same TAKE as shots that look perfectly fine.
On the Avid, in my 16X9 record window, all looks well, but that's to be expected. I have some hope that it will all look fine on the client's monitor (weird set-up won't let me monitor on the production monitor). But I have to deliver tonight, so I've made a dupe of the sequence and put a reformat 16x9 letterbox on it just so I have something usable.
Re: Dig Cut jumps from 16x9 to 4x3! by Dylan Reeve on Jul 24, 2008 at 10:04:29 am
It sounds like the deck is getting confusing widescreen signals. I believe you can disable this in the menu somewhere. I presume the footage on the tape will all be full-frame anamorphic, it's only the deck's preview that is changing based on it's reading of the WSS (WideScreen Signaling). The WSS in DV isn't well supported outside of camcorders, I tend to ignore it entirely.
The WSS signal is carried in the DV header and on a non-active video line which I believe can be set to be blanked in the deck configuration.
