Response to 16:9 NLE

You can turn 16:9 to 4:3 and back in EditDV. It takes a while, though, and a lot of hard drive space. But it's not difficult.

The trick is to use the PIP filter to crop your material.

For example, take the letterboxing case. You take your 16:9 material into a 4:3 EditDV project. You then put a PIP filter set to scale the vertical size of the 16x9 clips down to 356. Set the vertical position to 62 to center it.

If you don't want to letterbox, you can set up a Pan 'n' Scan: PIP filter with crop size set to 540x480. You can animate the crop's horizontal position over the course of the video for pan 'n' scan effects.

There are converse settings for going from 4:3 to 16:9, too. We talk about a lot of stuff like this on the EditDV list. Go to http:// www.radius.com/Subscribe/editdvlistserv.html for details about how to subscribe. (You have to subscribe to post.)

--Mike Jennings --Radius Digital Video Team

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