2.35:1 Cinemascope, Panavision, Anamorphic Aspect Ratio Tutorial

[GanglioFilm]

There is a plugin that displays markers to 2.35:1 on the display of the EOS 7D?

I'm italian, sorry for my english :(

[TaoStudiosMovies]

Soooo coool. Anyone know if this aspect ratio can be converted to 35mm for a film festival?

[WeddingsCinema]

AWESOME THANKS!! been wondering this for a while!!

[michaeldevowe]

@WeddingsCinema You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.

[antoinepaiphone]

Thank you so much !

[michaeldevowe]

@antoinepaiphone Oh you're welcome!

[JonnyFunkMistro]

hey great vid, does this work with footage shot on an SD camera, like the canon xl2? unfortunately I'm still working with standard definition until I get to university and shoot HD

[michaeldevowe]

@JonnyFunkMistro Yes, it would. Just use the same method, but crop only 50 or 60 pixels on the top and bottom. Hope that helps! -Michael

[courtsinsessionfilms]

I'll post a video response soon to give the full details of my method.

[michaeldevowe]

@courtsinsessionfilms I would like to see this. Thanks!

[courtsinsessionfilms]

I have a different method I'm working on for a short film I plan to do in the future. It takes a bit more work, but it doesn't distort the image. I actually made an transparent overlay that has black bars on the top and bottom of my camcorder's LCD that is scaled from 1920x1080. The aspect ratio is 2.40:1 so I take 1920 and divide by 2.40 to get a height of 800. Now I crop the image, but I don't stretch the image. I simply letterbox it to give the panavision look without distorting pixels.

[michaeldevowe]

@courtsinsessionfilms Thanks for the comment and info. However, your method completely defeats the purpose of this tutorial since the goal here is to output 2.35:1 cinemascope aspect ratio footage WITHOUT the black bars. Keep in mind that this tutorial method does not distort the footage at all either. It only crops it. The footage will NOT be pixelated or distorted whatsoever.

[EdEditz]

Nice one. Thanks for that :)

[michaeldevowe]

@EdEditz Thanks Ed! You're welcome - I'm glad it helps.

[EdEditz]

@michaeldevowe Yes it was helpful.

It sucks that the YouTube player doesn't automatically take the same size as the video. It still shows black bars on top and bottom. Do you happen to know if the Vimeo player does that too? I'd like to just see the video in the right aspect ratio without any black.

[michaeldevowe]

@EdEditz Vimeo does not change the aspect ratio of videos you upload. Examples: vimeo.com / 11296764​, vimeo.com /​12126223

[EdEditz]

@michaeldevowe Ah that's great. Thanks for your quick reply. Appreciate it. :)

[michaeldevowe]

@EdEditz No problem!