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<strong>Appendix</strong> 6: Aspect Ratios, Anamorphic Image, and Wide-screen<br />
this case for 4 × 3 viewing, you will want to reformat the fi lm letterboxed. If your DVD authoring<br />
software doesn’t support automatic formatting, you can burn an anamorphic version for fullresolution<br />
16 × 9 and a letterboxed version for 4 × 3.<br />
If you want to reformat an anamorphic 16 × 9 sequence to a letterboxed 4 × 3 sequence in Final Cut<br />
Pro, edit with the media and sequence 16 × 9 fl agging set, then drag the 16 × 9 sequence in the<br />
browser into an empty 4 × 3 sequence in the timeline.<br />
When shooting fi lm for anamorphic telecine or letterboxing, make sure you have the proper viewfi<br />
nder guide frame on the camera. It is extremely ill advised to shoot without a guide frame thinking<br />
the operator can frame the shot by remembering to frame for wide-screen.<br />
Pan and Scan<br />
Another way of displaying wide-screen images in 4 × 3 is pan and scan. In pan and scan, the edges<br />
are simply cropped off keeping some part of the center of the screen (see Figure A6.4). The system<br />
Figure A6.4 The pan and scan process. The original 1 : 1.85 can be letterboxed on a 4 × 3 monitor,<br />
(lower left) or it can be “Pan and Scanned”. The pan and scanned image on the lower right shows how<br />
the edges of the 1 : 185 image are cropped to make the aspect 4 × 3. The image can be shifted left<br />
and right to keep the action on screen, but this adds “camera moves” that were not intended by the<br />
fi lmmaker. Pan and scan can be done in the Color application<br />
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