There is so much extra work in getting the aspect ratio. You can adjust with output blanking for 2.35 as opposed to hand cranking the crop. Or, my preferred method, select a 2.35 resolution in the project settings and change image scaling to full frame with crop. Now your video is in a 2.35 ration itself and not letterboxed.
I thought it would be about horizontal flare. Everything else isn't necessarily anamorphic, many older wide angle lenses have a visible loss of sharpness around the edges, and vignetting and distortion are the easiest things to add.
Horizontal flares are something I've kind of talked about in a previous video about giving your footage "character". And all of the things in this one aren't necessarily supposed to be difficult. They're just my approach to getting a specific look out of a lens that doesn't already provide that look 🙂
Glad you liked it! If your entire video is going to be in that aspect ratio you would use the method where you set your time line resolution to the correct value and then in the export settings you would put in the same resolution as the time line. That way you get the aspect ratio after uploading. In the case of this video, I exported the whole thing in a 2:1 with a resolution of 3840x1920 to be able to compare the clips with the black bars to the ones without.
That's absolutely true. I just used the wide angle example because I wanted to illustrate the difference between my regular framing and the "anamorfake" one. So I basically wanted to fake what an equivalent mm anamorphic lens would capture if it was placed in the same spot as the one I usually use for my videos. And in this example, to do that I had to go wider 🙂
Im surprised you do it this way. I always just change the dimensions of my video in the project settings to be anamorphic that way when watching on RU-vid on any device the actual ration and black bars are real. Its the same thing I guess just dont normally see people do it this way
Like I said in the video, that would definitely be the correct way to do it, yeah. But the rest of this video was in 2:1 and I wanted to do the comparisons which wouldn't really come across correctly if I had exported the whole thing in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. So for this example it made more sense to go with the cropping method. Otherwise, when just trying to get the 2.39:1 for the whole video, what you said is the better way to do it 🙂
It does, yeah, good call. But in the case of this video that would mean having the black bars on everything, not just the clips I wanted to make "anamorfake" so later, comparing them wouldn't have made as much sense. However, you're right, and I will start using that down the line for projects that I want to have the letterboxes on entirely. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks George, I've been enjoying your videos for some time now and wanted to take this opportunity to let you know how much I appreciate your down-to-earth style and useful topics. I'm pretty familiar with the "anamorfake" thing and thought you hit most of the properties, except you forgot the lens flares! I happen to like a tasteful blue flare to solidify the feel of an anamorphic frame, but any color will due as long as it's a horizontal feature. Keep on doing what you're doing and don't give in to the click-baity youtube #stupidface thumbs.
Hey, I really appreciate this comment. Genuinely means a lot. You're right about the flares, there are ways to do it in post but like I mentioned, it's hard to make them look real enough to justify the time you would spend setting them up in the first place. I guess a good alternative would be throwing one of those "streak" filters on your lens, but I find that those produce way too strong of an effect.
The Lens Flare OFX produces some very good results quite easily. I agree about the streak filters being over the top and unusable. I experimented with the fishing line trick but found it to be unsatisfactory.
