Great video! But if you want to present your widescreen film on a cinema screen, I would always deliver your film as a scope 2.39:1 DCP as most cinemas use a wider screen. If delivered in a flat DCP, which is always 1.85:1, your film would be in pillar and letterbox format, so delivering in 2.39:1 is often a better choice for cinema submissions.
Love this breakdown with the SmallHD. Slightly unrelated question: What is the riser/high hat that you've got built into your table - I'm looking to do the exact same thing.
Hi, Thank you for your videos! I wanted to ask, if you were to choose your first anamorphic lens for the Sony a7Siii, which one would you pick? Best regards,
Thanks for a great easily understood video. I just bought my first anamorphic lens which I'm excited to start using but I really didn't understand what steps in post was required until now. Also thanks for explaing the monitor display settings.
Very surprised the FX6 doesn't have anamorphic support to de-squeeze in camera. Unrelated: I'd love to see a video from you on how you monitor focus with the Indie 7 and other Small HD displays. I've found that the Small HD focus assist isn't as....accurate (maybe not the right word) as the Atomos monitors.
Hey thanks for the comment. Although it would be nice if all cameras could desqueeze in-camera but as I eluded to in the video, a lot of times we want all sorts of flavors of something and that would be challenging to offer. Take the Venice for example: It has an anamorphic mode, a license that costs $4000+. It only enables 4k windows of the full frame sensor therefore, I'm not using it. I'm doing it manually as you can see. Focus: Believe it or not, I rarely use focus peaking and haven't for years. I focus by eye mostly on the Cine 7. That being said, I have had to pull focus and set up peaking on SmallHD monitors and I know what you're saying. I found great success experimenting with the focus assist values. It took a bit of trial and error but I got it. I'd share those settings with you now if I could.
I'm curious on the letterboxing decision. You mention that there is little to stop someone from displaying the footage incorrectly and cutting off the sides when displaying...but any digital display device will automatically add a letterbox if the file dimensions are say, 2:1, on a 16x9 display. Have you encountered a client or someone actually cropping into your image to display it incorrectly? This is crazy to me. I've always just created the aspect ratio within the NLE itself and never had an issue. The device that is displaying the content will automatically use the best available space to show the file, regardless of aspect ratio.
Great video! But if you want to present your widescreen film on a cinema screen, I would always deliver your film as a scope 2.39:1 DCP as most cinemas use a wider screen. If delivered in a flat DCP, which is always 1.85:1, your film would be in pillar and letterbox format, so delivering in 2.39:1 is often a better choice for cinema submissions.
Thank you
Amazing job Julien! Thank you so much for making this video; and all the other videos in this series. Please, keep them coming!
Thank you so much!
Was just thinking about whether to deliver in 16:9 or 2.93:1 but delivering in 16:9 makes more sense! Great video!
Awesome. I hope this helps.
Thanks Julien! I'm new to anamorphic and this video helps a lot!
Hey I’m glad
Really awesome vid! What model SmallHD is that?
Thank you so much. Cine7.
Love this breakdown with the SmallHD. Slightly unrelated question: What is the riser/high hat that you've got built into your table - I'm looking to do the exact same thing.
Hey thanks! It’s a Vinten highhat.
Thanks man
Nice one Julien, looking forward to using those steps on my Cine 5!
Thanks Kris. I hope it helps!
Hi,
Thank you for your videos! I wanted to ask, if you were to choose your first anamorphic lens for the Sony a7Siii, which one would you pick?
Best regards,
The Aivascope 1.5 or 1.7x Amber flare adapter. And I’d run it on a Leica R 60mm f2.8 macro lens.
Thanks for a great easily understood video. I just bought my first anamorphic lens which I'm excited to start using but I really didn't understand what steps in post was required until now. Also thanks for explaing the monitor display settings.
I’m glad this was helpful
That was a great lesson. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
Very informative.
Thank you, I hope it helps!
Such good info, really no other video out there with this info🙌
Thanks Antonio!
Very surprised the FX6 doesn't have anamorphic support to de-squeeze in camera. Unrelated: I'd love to see a video from you on how you monitor focus with the Indie 7 and other Small HD displays. I've found that the Small HD focus assist isn't as....accurate (maybe not the right word) as the Atomos monitors.
Hey thanks for the comment. Although it would be nice if all cameras could desqueeze in-camera but as I eluded to in the video, a lot of times we want all sorts of flavors of something and that would be challenging to offer. Take the Venice for example: It has an anamorphic mode, a license that costs $4000+. It only enables 4k windows of the full frame sensor therefore, I'm not using it. I'm doing it manually as you can see. Focus: Believe it or not, I rarely use focus peaking and haven't for years. I focus by eye mostly on the Cine 7. That being said, I have had to pull focus and set up peaking on SmallHD monitors and I know what you're saying. I found great success experimenting with the focus assist values. It took a bit of trial and error but I got it. I'd share those settings with you now if I could.
GREAT! Thanks
Thank you!
There are a new firmware update on fx6 that we can use de-squeeze ? right ?
Yes
I'm curious on the letterboxing decision. You mention that there is little to stop someone from displaying the footage incorrectly and cutting off the sides when displaying...but any digital display device will automatically add a letterbox if the file dimensions are say, 2:1, on a 16x9 display. Have you encountered a client or someone actually cropping into your image to display it incorrectly? This is crazy to me. I've always just created the aspect ratio within the NLE itself and never had an issue. The device that is displaying the content will automatically use the best available space to show the file, regardless of aspect ratio.
Not all avenues will do what you say. RUclips didn’t used to support 2.39:1. They’d crop it to 16:9. Event spaces, etc. Letterboxes are dummy proof.
So I need a monitor? I have a Sirui on my Sony 6400 and I can’t get it to look like anamorphic
Yes
What monitor is that!?
Cine7
What smallhd are you running on your set up here?
Cine7
Detail which most of the videos don't have
Respect
great video. thanks dude!
Thank you