Re: [Avid-L2] Red ama clips Center Keep Size Vs. Letter/Pillar Box?

You need to play with this. I don't have an Avid with Red in front of me,
but it seems to me that centre keep size will crop the edges of the picture
and you will wonder why the shooter didn't leave any headroom. If not that,
there is a setting that does this. I believe it is whatever version 5
defaults to on AMA link to Red that is wrong. Try the other settings until
you see full pix with no pillars or letterboxes. File based workflows are a
pain to get used to at first.

Dennis

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

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> In watching the Avid screencast on ama Red clips in V5 and up it seems
> curious in the reformat setting on their clip which they say is 2:1 that it
> looks different in the Pillar/Letter box reformat as opposed to center keep
> size. I understand center cut but center keep size has black bars at top
> and bottom and so does the pillar/letter box setting. What confuses me is
> why the black bars at top and bottom are bigger in Pillar/Letter box than
> when in center keep size. For some reason I would think they should be the
> same. I must be confusing what the "spirit" of these two modes are. I
> would think center keep size would center the image and maintain the proper
> aspect ratio and fill to which ever edge hits first. This is what
> pillar/letter box does, right? Does the keep size mean the actual size so
> if it is smaller than the raster it will be some sort of postage stamp? I
> don't have access to any footage to play with right now. TIA
>
> John Moore
>
> Barking Trout Productions
>
> Studio City, CA
>
> bigfish@pacbell.net
>
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Dennis Kutchera
Halifax, NS Canada

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