Crop does that already, somehow
On 02/11/2014 6:23 pm, "Sumit Guha" <sguha(a)telus.net> wrote:
I like Carsten's idea of individual H/V sliders.
Maybe you can have it as
an user-selectable option so that one can choose to use it or not.
Sumit
On Nov 2, 2014 9:46 AM, Carsten Kurz <audiovisual(a)t-online.de> wrote:
Am 31.10.2014 um 00:36 schrieb Carl Hetherington:
As I said above... I had not anticipated the
desire to have true
no-scale, to put a small image in the middle of a big screen...
Yes, bit of a problem, how many 'creative' options do we want to add to
the software - putting a picture into a black frame like this technically
is letterboxing/pillarboxing, but not in a strict technical sense. Normally
one would do that in an external editor.
BTW - this is not only a problem with SD footage like from DVDs or
DV-video -
there are also HD-formats with non-square pixels, e.g. HD-DV/HDV
is 1440/1080, and I just took a short test with my Sony digital camera set
to MP4 format - it says '1080' in the camera menu, but in fact creates a
1440/1080 file with non-square pixels. DCP-o-matic states it is 1,33:1 and
previews it squeezed.
Now again, I can 'just' get it right in
DCP-o-matic using the 16:9
option, but that is the only way to do it. Also - in
this case I KNOW it is
16:9 and non-square pixels - what if people do not know it and/or the
preview image doesn't give a clear visual indication?
Personally I would love to have individual H/V scale sliders, but I
don't
think this is suitable for the general public ;-)
I guess it would be best to make DCP-o-matic use an existing AR-flag.
Then -
checkbox or not..., in content tab, or prefs? I guess I would want
to have this handled in content specific options, so a 'per file' setting.
At some point it could become important with
bitmap files as well,
although they are usually easier to correct externally.
I have seen quite a few files with non-square pixels WITHOUT a proper
flag, but I
have hardly ever seen a file with a 16:9 flag set wrongly, so I
think the risc is small this will cause real harm. And I think most people
would like to have DCP-o-matic show these common content types - DV/HDV,
and 16:9 DVD with the correct aspect ratio after import immediately. Like
my fellow projectionist does ;-)
- Carsten
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