Re: [Avid-L2] MC5, some small stuff

Yeah... Nah... Not so much.

But I sort of feel this Reformat option support could the the gateway to
properly utilising 'larger-than-frame' images in a pan-and-scan way. The
thing that frustrates me though is the center-cut option. If I put a 4:3
clip on a 16:9 timeline with the 'Center Cut" reformat mode selected then it
will extract the center of the frame an expand to make it anamorphic
(exactly the same as putting a Resize with 134% vertical on it) but I have
no method to reframe that clip - usually in that scenario I actually want
more of the top of the frame for headroom.

What I'd like to see is a plugin on the shot (sort of automatically applied
like the motion adapters for mixed framerates) that I could modify and
select shift the anchor point. And it's that workflow that I could see being
the way in to larger-than-frame stuff - have the reformat mode set to
"original size" and then step into it on the timeline to modify the viewport
on it.

My other big frustrations (in my article I think) are that I can't modify
the reformatting mode once I've put the clip on the timeline, and that if I
modify the source clip it doesn't apply to segments I've already edited from
that clip. To change the format of a clip in the timeline I'd have to
matchframe, modify the source and the replace the edit, then I'd have to
find and matchframe all subsequent uses of that clip.

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Dave Spraker <avid@spraker.tv> wrote:

>
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> So if you bring in a movie that is higher rez than the project...?
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> "Agustin Goya | Wancamp" (08-06-2010 22:42) :
>
> > I thought It would have let me to maintain original resolution of clip
> and
> > in case if I switched project type from HD to SD I would disable
> > Down-scaling, alla DS.
>
> Actually, that works when you bring in QT through AMA.
> If you import a 200x100 pixels QT movie, you can have it appear at its
> actual pixel size, within the project canvas.
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