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Maybe a dumb HD question

brucecleveland
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Apr 23, 2008, 8:47 AM

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Ok I know I should know the answer to this, but here goes. If I am shooting in HD and deliver in SD wide screen format is everything I see in my lcd going to be in the sd widescreen format? In other words, is anything going to be cut off when rendering out to SD wide screen??

Bruce
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JC/DV
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Apr 23, 2008, 8:57 AM

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You still deal with overscan. BUT its not as bad as 4:3 is.

Jerome
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brucecleveland
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Apr 23, 2008, 9:01 AM

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You still deal with overscan. BUT its not as bad as 4:3 is.

So is the overscan a real small area on the sides of what you see in the lcd?

Bruce
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JC/DV
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Apr 23, 2008, 10:35 AM

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You still deal with overscan. BUT its not as bad as 4:3 is.

So is the overscan a real small area on the sides of what you see in the lcd?

Bruce

Yep... well, depends on your camera and LCD. Its barely noticeable. I don't know an exact percentage what would be considered safe though. If I didn't have all the crap going on that I do right at the moment, I'd run a test and see.... it will be a while before I could do that though.

Jerome
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Joel
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Apr 23, 2008, 11:20 AM

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Hi Jerome,

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You still deal with overscan. BUT its not as bad as 4:3 is.

In my experience its not the aspect ratio that causes more or less underscan but the monitor type. CRT's have more underscan than LCD or plasma monitors do.

Joel

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(This post was edited by Joel on Apr 27, 2008, 11:18 PM)