Adding Cropmark Letterboxing to DSLR Videos

[TrickyEyeTV]

2.35:1 is not used any more in cinema. These days it refers to 2.39:1 of which is she standard of widescreen cinema now. 2.40:1 is the aspect ratio of 2.39:1 for Blu-Ray Discs which what I use for any short films I make (1920px by 800px when using FULL HD). Hope this helped.

[TechTimeWithNoah]

you said to thumbs down, so i did. your welcome.

[drumat5280]

@TechTimeWithNoah no problem, I did a terrible job on that one, I desired it.

[JonandSamTV]

@drumat5280 have you fixed it yet?

[drumat5280]

@JonandSamTV yes I have a nice fix for it, I will try to do a tutorial on this.

[SIXman1993]

Its normally a 2.35:1 aspect ratio in cinema!

[DJEDI296]

Is that a Tokina 11-16? I shot a wedding with one. I liked it, but the barrel distortion is less than subtle at 11mm. Good for super wide shots or "edgy artistic" stuff..

[dickvisa]

I've just download Magic Lantern but i don't have the letterbox cropmark .... how can u guys help me?? camera ask for the letterbox cropmark

[shiestytracks]

reccomend any steadycam?

[jameswalt1]

For the sliding timelapse thing it would be much easier to just shoot the images at 18megapixel, pull them condensed into premiere and software pan. That's what I did on my glidetrack video. Because you're going to render at 1080p, you've got a massive image to pan around in.

[jameswalt1]

@jameswalt1 To be clearer, I meant not using the slider at all, just still images.

[TylerPak]

Final cut has a 235 plugin for cropping.

[productfeedback]

I was going to say, just make a .png in Photoshop with the transparency you want. Import it as an image into Sony Vegas and done. Just depends on how you want to do it.

[Knoptop]

Would there ever be a need or want to crop your video to that 'cinematographic' wide screen on final output? (so there's no black bars)

[paolinosk8]

i'm looking forward to the slider review and the tokina 11-16 review... i don't know what to buy between the 2, if to wait and get the tokina or get the slider plus the 717ah video head

[nilsvgrevenbroek]

@drumat5280 I find most interesting is that a steady video can still move. Because you have video space enough for this.

Greetz nils van grevenbroek

[johnnybrazil01]

Hey Dave what firmware are you using?

I have the Jan 24th 1.0.9 up dated one. Do you know if there is any newer version? Because my doesn't seem to allow me to use the cropmark feature.

Thanks for taking my question.

[lauserlu]

hey dave, theres someting wrong with your cropmarks: i just watched the video on my ipod touch and i recognized that your cropmarks do not overlay everything, on the top and the bottom of the video, theres 1 row of pixels that are not overlaid by the cropmarks. if you film in 720p, cinescope should be 1280x720 minus 87 on top, and 87 on the bottom(1280x546(2,35:1)) go open your cropmarks in photoshop or whatever you use, and check if there is 1 transparent row of pixel above the upper cropmark

[drumat5280]

@lauserlu thanks for letting me know, I designed it for 720 and used it on a 1080 video, that must be the issue.

[Ubody]

Do you use Magic Latern for your timelapse? I've tried it, a couple of times, but it does not take the picture on the delay time I have choosen.

Ex. if I choose 10 sec, between each picture, it sometimes holds it to about 12 - 15 sec, before taking the picture.

Do you have the same problem?

I do also have a 550D

[drumat5280]

@Ubody I have not tried it yet for timelapse.

[nilsvgrevenbroek]

Hey dave

Hi i see something strange happening at the top and bottom of your border.

[drumat5280]

@nilsvgrevenbroek thanks for letting me know, I designed it for 720 and used it on a 1080 video, that must be the issue.

[nilsvgrevenbroek]

@drumat5280 you're welcome, I am also working on letter boxes this week. I use png files for my letterbox.

[gooberman86]

Awesome show Dave!

[iJsturgess]

Isn't it better just to add the black border after in Vegas ?

[drumat5280]

@iJsturgess I like to see it while I am editing.

[lauserlu]

@drumat5280 i think you mean filming?

if you want to see it when editing, just make another video track where you put the bmp file in, it has to be above the video track where your footage is in.

and hey, try lightworks!

[nilsvgrevenbroek]

@iJsturgess, not if you are using premiere.

this would give you lower quality because Vegas does not work well with mov files.

time consuming.

[glennwih]

Do you void your warranty by adding Majic Latern?

[drumat5280]

@glennwih I think it does.

[StimpyJackal]

@glennwih ML only exists on the SD card, not on your actual camera. So just replace your ML card with a clean fresh card if you need to send it in for repairs and such.

[glennwih]

@StimpyJackal Really? How the heck does that work?

[StimpyJackal]

@glennwih I don't want to give the obvious funny "It's magic" comment, so I won't. It's just how ML works. You can also format that ML card and you'll have a fresh warranty-safe camera.

[glennwih]

Letterbox 16x9 is cool but will compress your video with certain undesired results.

[JoshuaBeeLoved]

@glennwih Not really. If your letterboxing the right way it shouldn't compress anything. Letterboxing has nothing to do with scaling the size of the video. What most people do is scale their video down, and compresses the video into looking more.... stretched. If your just adding a Letterbox Template over top of your footage, then nothing compresses. Cinema uses Cropping!

[JoshuaBeeLoved]

Hey Dave, I Have A Full Set of Different Size Letterboxing That People Can Actually Add To Their Footage In Any Program Such As Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and so on. I'll send you a link to download the package if you'd like?

[lwj033]

awesome awesome awesome

[iCostaa]

I´m looking forward to the slider review :)!

[drumat5280]

@iCostaa I hope to have all my footage acquired soon for the slider video.