combining letterbox and anamorphic widescreen footage?

[adevlinb]

What is the best way for me to combine letterbox widescreen footage with anamorphic widescreen footage in a project to get the best possible final image? I hate to shrink down the size of the anamorphic footage in a 4:3 project to match the size of the letterbox footage but then again increasing the size of the letterbox footage in a 16:9 project to match seems like it could be horrible too. Help!

In case I've confused you above, here's the idea: 1 camera shot in true, anamorphic widescreen but the other one just shot letterboxed 16:9, i.e. it just cropped the bottom and top off. I need to edit between them in a sequence and want best possible picture/resolution. Finished product will be viewed on widescreen tv. thanks!

[guns1inger]

You don't have choice. You have to go one way or the other. The third option is to have the 4:3 footage pillarboxed, which will give it large black borders all around.

I would simply crop 60 pixels from the top and 60 pixels from the bootom of the 4:3 footage, then resize it back to 480 and edit away. If you process with avisynth, add a slight sharpening with asharp, then edit, you may not be able to tell the difference.

[stars]

I you are going to use the pictures in slideshow on a DVD you could
seperate the images (4:3 - 16:9) and build two different slideshows...
The slideshows would be in differnt VTS (VTS_01 and VTS_02)...

This is a way to have different aspect. on one DVD....


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