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The Filmmaker’s Guide to Final Cut Pro Workfl ow<br />
When you open an anamorphic sequence, the Canvas window resizes to 16 × 9. When you open an<br />
anamorphic clip, the viewer resizes to 16 × 9. As long as the two match, the anamorphic video is<br />
unaffected. If the two don’t match, the sequence will require rendering and the new image will be<br />
stretched or letterboxed.<br />
The fl ags do not make the video anamorphic, it already is. You are only fl agging it as 16 × 9 so that<br />
the QuickTime image on the computer screen or any QuickTime exported for DVD authoring will have<br />
the proper aspect ratio. The image on the video monitor is not affected by the anamorphic fl agging. If<br />
a 16 × 9 monitor is used to edit anamorphic video, the image will be normal with the fl ags set or not.<br />
When playing 16 × 9 anamorphic video, the newer DVD players format themselves; these DVD players<br />
will automatically play an anamorphic movie wide-screen to a 16 × 9 television or letterboxed to a<br />
4 × 3 television. In the examples illustrated in Figure A6.3, the 1 : 1.85 fi lm (top) has been transferred<br />
or “telecined” anamorphically to 16 × 9. When played from an automatically formatting DVD player to<br />
a 16 × 9 monitor (lower left), the image is full-screen. When this anamorphic video is played directly to<br />
a 4 × 3 monitor without formatting (lower center), the image is stretched vertically. However, as this video<br />
is “fl agged” as anamorphic, the DVD player automatically letterboxes the video when displayed on a 4 ×<br />
3 monitor (lower right). This requires scaling the image, but all 480 scan lines are scaled keeping the<br />
image as sharp as possible. There is more on this in Chapter 1 in the section on anamorphic telecine.<br />
Figure A6.3 Images at16 × 9 on a 4 × 3 monitor<br />
These DVD players will also “pillar” or “pill box” 4 × 3 video when viewed on a 16 × 9 monitor.<br />
Pillaring is the opposite of letterboxing. In this case, masking off the edges of the 16 × 9 image to<br />
4 × 3. This only holds true if your DVD authoring software supports this kind of formatting. Without<br />
this special formatting, the anamorphic movie will always look squeezed on a 4 × 3 television. In<br />
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