2.35:1 Cinemascope, Panavision, Anamorphic Aspect Ratio Tutorial

http://devowe.com/blog/2011/2-351-cinemascope-anamorphic-aspect-ratio-tutorial/ - A 90 second tutorial on exporting 1080p widescreen (16:9) footage to Cinemascope aspect ratio (otherwise known as Panavision or Anamorphic Scope - 2.35:1 ratio).

In this example, I used 100 pixels on the top and bottom. TRUE 2.35:1 aspect ratio would be 132px on top, and 131px on bottom (or vice versa). The final output would be 817px tall.

Please bestow a ♥ like or leave a ✉ comment if you have questions!

☞ ASPECT RATIO CONVERSION METHOD:

To convert from any aspect ratio to a wider format (such as 2.35:1 or 1.85:1), all you have to do is

DIVIDE the WIDTH of your SOURCE footage (1920 in this example) by the final aspect ratio desired (2.35 in this example).

So,
1920
DIVIDED BY
2.35 = 817 pixels tall

Your final output would be 1920x817.

✏ To find the amount to crop off the top and bottom, subtract your pixel number (817px here) from your source footage height (1080px) and divide it by two. If it is a decimal number (such as 131.5), even it out to whole pixels (i.e. - crop 132px from top, 131px from bottom).

✏ Here are some examples of aspect ratio conversion methods. These are all assuming 1920x1080 footage. If your SOURCE footage is 1280x720, your width would be 1280; if your SOURCE footage is 720x480, your width would be 720; and so on.

☞ 16:9 to 2.35:1 / Cinemascope / Anamorphic / Panavision Aspect Ratio:
SOURCE footage width (1920) DIVIDED BY 2.35 = 817px tall
Crop 132px off top, 131px off bottom.

☞ 16:9 to 1.85:1 / Academy Flat / "Flat" Aspect Ratio:
SOURCE footage width (1920) DIVIDED BY 1.85 = 1038px tall
Crop 21px off top, 21px off bottom.

As a 'bonus', here is the method for converting your 4:3 aspect ratio video to regular 16:9 widescreen (assuming 640x480 footage):

☞ 4:3 to 16:9 Regular Widescreen Aspect Ratio:
SOURCE footage width (640) DIVIDED BY 1.778 = 360px tall
Crop 60px off top, 60px off bottom.


★Other Tutorials:★
Slow Motion from pictures tutorial! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJmhIQjPVKQ
Color Correction tutorial the RIGHT way! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EutVgTck6U

To learn more about aspect ratios, Panavision, Cinemascope, Anamorphic Scope, and much more - go to http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/aspectratios/widescreenoram...

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TRANSCRIPT:
Hey, it's Michael from devowe.com. Today we're going to do a quick tutorial on exporting your 16:9 widescreen footage to Panavision or otherwise known as Cinemascope or Anamorphic aspect ratio. So make sure your timeline is selected - I'm in Premiere here - and go to File , Export , Adobe Media Encoder. And then on the upper-left we're going to click this crop button here. This is 1080p so I'm going to crop the top and bottom 100 pixels. Go to the output tab. You can still see we have these bars - black bars, that's ugly. So since I'm cropping it 100 pixels on the top and bottom, it's going to be 880 instead of 1080. That looks worse, so we're going to Scale to Fit. And that's basically it - you're going to export it and so once that's done, you'll have true Anamorphic widescreen and you can upload it to Vimeo or what have you and it won't have any black borders. So there you go, and I hope you enjoyed it, and it was helpful. Thanks for watching!

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[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

[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?

[michaeldevowe]

@courtsinsessionfilms I would like to see this. Thanks!

[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.