Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:34 pm
BUMP THIS PLEASE!
More and more, we are delivering social assets for TV shows, movies, and especially all commercial work. In various aspect ratios, ie. 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 are the most common.
While we work, our workaround is to do rough cuts using various masks to pillarbox these aspect ratios within a 16:9 aspect ratio, so that the reference monitor and client monitor display it without stretching it out to fit it's screen.
Then we have to conform to final spec later, which scaling is never the same and you have to basically start over and do it right when it should have been done right from the beginning. It's additional steps in a workflow that could be easily solved by firmware. Time suck!
It would be so awesome if our capture playback cards could do send the correct aspect ratio of our sequences to our various reference monitors for viewing. This is NLE and software agnostic, we have this issue in Davinci Resolve, FCPX, Adobe PPro and AE, etc etc.
Please and thanks!