Multiple frame guides at same time?

Hi,

is there any way to have multiple frame guides at the same time?

Say I was shooting 16:9 but also wanted 1:1 and 9:16 guides - is that possible?

I hired out my camera the other day and it was something they asked about - I could only see one way of doing it, and any other guides like safe frames or rules of thirds act only within the visible frame guide?

Thanks,

Steve

Hi,

… I was shooting 16:9 but also wanted 1:1 and 9:16 guides - is that possible? …

Not yet. The shooting resolution gives you a display of your active area, so that’s 16:9 taken care of. Then you can add a real frame guide selected from the available options such as 1:1. If you can’t make the safe area represent the third frame, the other option is taping a white thread over your monitor ‘masking’ where the 9:16 guide would fall. Adding an additional frame guide should be somewhat easy to do within the bounds of the active area, so I can see that being added. However you know as soon as that feature is released, people will ask for any number of selected frame guides.

Shooting 16:9 and delivering a 9:16 cut in post is easy and probably the best place to do it so you can fine tune the physical position of the vertical image within that cramped area. Composing 9:6 in a monitor as a shooter or director while recording 16:9 isn’t seriously likely to give you the best results unless you’re in a totally controlled shoot with no penalty for lots of retakes in my opinion.

Hi Rick,

thanks - yeah it's not something I've ever needed personally, but will pass it along to them.

Cheers!

Just to add what Rick said already, I would do it his way, and likely be something like this.

As a shooter, I would use a frame guide (be it one that is in camera or masks the monitor) to compose the shot I want it for that frame ratio. The camera will record it as 16:9 but that’s fine.

In post, I can size or frame the shots by setting the size I want the clip to be or through overlays (or output blanking) to the frame size I want that shot to be delivered. It’s pretty easy to do.

Just as a postscript, I don’t like to use overlays or what Resolve has call output blanking unless I am in a rush and the project is not very particular. What I prefer doing is for those clips that needs to be reframed with a different frame size, I would do them individually and separately, and then assemble them with the other clips in a master timeline. This way I maintain everything in the correct aspect ratio. Wes Anderson movies are known to do this a lot.

Cheers!

Thanks,

Steve