hi
i’m made a movie with resolution 2048x1080 and now i want to scale it to 1920x1080. But in a Letterbox Way!!!
how to i achieve this with the sequencer. i’ve tride the transform effect and just changing the output resolution but it keeps cropping my movie.
thanks
In the Compositor:
– Create a “canvas” frame of just pure black at size 1920x1080. Load this into an Input node set to type Image (Input>Image).
– Load your 2048x1080 image sequence/movie into another Input>Image node and set up the parameters accordingly. Pipe this to a Distort>Scale node with X= 1920 & Y=1012 using the Absolute mode, or both values set @ 0.9375 ( = 1920 / 2048 ) in Relative mode. Note that this will create a slightly out-of-proportion image, since it can’t Scale the depth to a fraction of a pixel (the math makes the exact depth 1012.5 pixels deep), but this would be unnoticeable imo.
– Pipe the canvas frame output to the top input channel of a Color>Lighten node
– Pipe the Scale output to the bottom input of the above Color>Lighten node
– Pipe the output of the Color>Lighten node to an Output>Composite node, and also to an optional Viewer Node if you want to preview the result in the UV/Image Editor.
– Set your Render specs to 1920x1080, enable Do Composite, and hit Anim.
These steps are for 2.49b but the process in 2.5x should be comparable.
thanks very much, that did it