Hi all, I'm working in a 1080p 23.976 project that has a good amount of 4x3 29.97 archival footage from the early 90's. The issue I'm having is, when the 4x3 footage was captured from tape, the 4x3 footage became stretched to fill the 16x9 raster (no pillarbox). In order to avoid looking...

Hey all, had another funny issue that keeps rearing its head. I am having problems with the UI in the paint tool, and sometimes in the reformat tool just dissapearing when I am working in the tool. Recreating user settings seems to fix the problem tempararily but eventually the problem reappears. I had...

One of the great advantages to Media Composer in the past was that the editor got to make all the decisions. Where Final Cut made assumptions about whether a shot was anamorphic or not, Avid made you decide what format it was. Frameflex seems to have made that concept obsolete and stolen my sense of...

Hi, I`m having trouble with 16:9 clips that has Center Crop selected in Reformat Bin Column. When using a dissolve at the beggining of clip comming from black, the duration of the dissolve shows the clip without the reformat applied. I`m in MC 6.5.3. I believe is the same that is happening here: http...

Hi there Footage has been supplied to me avid wrapped from an OB truck, MPEG50i (PAL, as we are finishing for PAL broadcast) SD625/50. The show is multi-cam and all cameras appear the same in my timeline & source windows, regardless of 25i or 1080/50i project settings. I've copied the MXF files...

Working on an SD show that incorportates XDCAM HD footage in the timeline. For the sake of getting a rough out I eyeballed in the aspect ratio correction using a Re-size filter so that I coud "Pan & Scan". (wasnt familiar with the actual Pan & Scan plugin at that time) Now I am conforming...

Hi all, I've moved on to a different project with a new set of quirks. The latest is that I can't get the reformat function to work in the bin view. I get the drop-down menu and choose pillarbox (or whatever I need to choose for a particular shot) and then click on Image Aspect Ratio to get the...

I shot my video with Canon 5D Mark II in 1080 24 frames per second with 1/50 shutter speed with camera on tripod. When imported to AVid Media Composer 5.5.3 transcoded to mxf files there are dropped frames noticeble when there is motion in front of the camera. the motions were not fast. The motions where...

Here's what I do: import / edit / use REFORMAT effect (adjust accordingly)

Am working on a production where they are shooting with an anamorphic lense (1.3 squeeze) on the Arri Alexa camera, which will give a final aspect ratio of 2.35:1. What avid reformat effect should I be using to make this look 'normal' and squeeze the image for the offline?