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General => Video Editing/Compression => General Discussion => Video Editing Tutorials => Topic started by: VenomX on September 07, 2007, 11:52:56 AM

Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: VenomX on September 07, 2007, 11:52:56 AM
Okay, this is probably the worst way of doing it, as it doesn't actually make the video different dimensions, just covers up some of it.  My PC isn't really the best to do this on, as its default 1024x768, and pretty crap .

Well anyway, you're going to need Vegas and Photoshop for this, or any other good graphics program.  Find out the resolution of your video that you want to make widescreened, then create a new photoshop canvas in that size with these settings (800x600 in my example.)

 (only used a very small border, but it makes the point):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLvRdMVfSiA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLvRdMVfSiA)

You can also use them to put names in, which is useful too.

Hope this helps!
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: VaNilla on September 07, 2007, 12:19:49 PM
Simple way is to just use pan and crop dimension .
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: Inwa on September 07, 2007, 12:42:38 PM
Thanks for the tutorial.
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: Souzuk on September 07, 2007, 12:48:06 PM
Thank you i will use it

Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: GT-7 on September 08, 2007, 12:09:20 AM
This is good way to do good looking widescreens
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: FIGHTER on September 08, 2007, 12:27:39 AM
thanks
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: Matbugss on September 08, 2007, 12:46:30 AM
Thanks much Ven.
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: VenomX on September 08, 2007, 05:22:13 AM
No problemo, thanks for the request .
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: Luky on September 08, 2007, 08:18:12 AM
Great tutorial, very helpful
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: Auzas on September 08, 2007, 09:51:36 AM
Cant you just use cookie cutter and then box, or how tha hell it was called, and make the border  how big you want? And you dont have to turn on PS.
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: GT-7 on September 08, 2007, 10:39:20 AM
Its pan and crop btw, yes its better to make simple widescreen, but with ps you can make whatever like widescreen you want
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: Paxton on September 08, 2007, 11:48:09 AM
Useful tut.
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: VaNilla on September 08, 2007, 07:20:23 PM
You can make whatever widescreen you want with pan and crop too GT, just click on the button that lets you change the aspect of the crop, drag the edges and now the black lines appear, and you can make them as big or small you like, then click off that to have normal pan and crop again.
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: Adonai on September 09, 2007, 12:34:10 AM
THX man, very helpful  
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: GT-7 on September 09, 2007, 01:24:46 AM
SS, i didnt mean like that widescreens..  Heres a example what i was meaning:
[attachment=6282:widescreen.png]
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: VaNilla on September 09, 2007, 04:02:21 AM
Oh , I made the first basic tutorial on how to do those way back, HERE (http://www.gtastunting.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=17321) .
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: GT-7 on September 09, 2007, 04:59:56 AM
  Yeh i remembered that like widescreens from your tut what i saw when i early registered here
Title: Basic widescreen tutorial
Post by: Daffy on September 12, 2007, 01:52:10 AM
If you were to show that on a widescreen monitor the image would get squeezed, widescreen is a resolution which cannot be achieved by putting a black border on top of your movie.
There's 3 ways of doing it:
1. Record in a 16:9 widescreen resolution (1280x720 anyone? ) and render it in the same resolution.
2. Render your movie in a 16:9 resolution though your recordings are in 4:3 (remember to change aspect ratio).
3. Crop enough pixels from 4:3 to make it fit 16:9

800 / 600 = 1.33:1
1280 / 720 = 1.78:1

If you try to watch a 800x600 movie on a widescreen monitor like for instance 1920x1200 monitor it will of course get upscaled to fit the screen but since the monitor fits a 1.60:1 AR movie max and can't go further down from that you will have it in 1600x1200 and black bars at the sides.
Write a widescreen tutorial that's actually working, locked... thanks for trying though.
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