Watch this BEFORE shooting WIDESCREEN (History of Aspect Ratio) 

Thanks Larry, really appreciate your comment. It's anyone who enjoy's cinema! Feel free to share it. Hope you have a good day.

I have to agree. This is the best and most in-depth explanation and exploration of aspect ratio I have ever seen. Thank you!

Because most people coming to the channel are not doing the filming so don't see the necessity of understanding this. So they'll watch the other videos on this channel, not knowing what they are missing. It's sad there aren't as many viewers as there should be. A good understanding of this tells you how to make changes in the NLE for the aspect used to accentuate the framing with masking for DOF, contrasting, darkening, color grading, relighting and many of the other tools you have in programs like Resolve. Those tools can be used to focus the viewer's attention where you want. Leading lines aren't the only way to direct a viewer's attention.

Thanks Richard. Kind of you to say.

So glad you enjoyed, thanks for commenting.

Thank you kindly!

Thanks Adriano. It’s great to have you here, glad you enjoyed the video. It was one of our first!

@sdk407 Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it. It's also hosted on Film Editing Pro's channel too. You might enjoy our 'What Drives the Cut' series: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MP1ezQ9ahXw.html

Thanks Shelby

Thanks so much. Glad this video is still being enjoyed.

Thanks so much!

Awesome, thanks for watching.

Thanks so much! Glad people are still enjoying this video.

Great to have you here. Thanks so much for your kind comment. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Our pleasure Pierre. This was our first explainer video we ever made, so glad it's still being watched and enjoyed.

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it.

I'm so glad! Hopefully you will never look at a rectangle the same way again :)

Thank-you Linus. Glad you enjoyed it :)

Thanks so much. Appreciate you watching it and taking the time to comment.

You are welcome!

Thanks for watching and commenting. Appreciated.

Thanks! It was a fun project, and yes, a lot of effort too.

Thanks Adavi :)

Glad you enjoyed it

thanks!

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Thanks for watching and commenting. The cool thing about using 1 as the common denominator is it makes it easier the compare different aspect ratios against each other without having to do maths!!!

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks so much Sam.

Your comments inspire us! Thank-you.

Thanks!

Hahaha. Thanks :) It's also shared over at filmeditingpro (ru-vid.com). Check it out for all things editing related.

Yeah, good point! Thanks so much for watching.

Thank-you Luis :)

Those super narrow and super wide aspect ratios are so beautiful though! Don't forget, a lot of 'widescreen' imagery is shot with anamorphic lenses. So a 2:1 sensor would be prohibitive. Taller sensor sizes like 3:2 are actually more useful.

@@lbarnard86 Are anamorphic lenses necessary with a wider sensor? What's the widest aspect ratio that doesn't require anamorphic?

@@ThoseStairsTheFirst You can crop any sensor to a desired aspect ratio. Lot's of cinematographers shoot 'flat' 2.39. Nowadays, choosing to shoot anamorphic is more to do with the aesthetic qualities it delivers rather than the aspect ratio. Some people even shoot with anamorphic lenses yet crop it to 1.78 or 1.33.

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So cool! Thanks for watching.

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Thanks Matka!

Thanks!

Hahah! Glad you enjoyed the first 5 minutes :)

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@@team2films it's a joke because in minecraft 64 = a stack sorry for confusion lmao

@@Darrk_77 Ahhhhh :) Thanks for the explanation

Thanks for watching.

Whoops! That’s a typo. Sorry! Thanks so much for watching and commenting

@@team2films as a (very) old man who first started attending the cinema in the 50s there are two things that are brought to mind from your dissertation. The amazing sound of the Todd-AO films which used an aspect ratio of 2.20:1 but with six(?) audio tracks on the 70mm film. South Pacific was an absolute audio treat to the naive ears of the post-war generation who had no experience of quality audio outside the concert hall. I’m also reminded that cinemas often showed an A (category) film with high production values and wider ratio and a B film of lower production quality and ‘traditional ratios’ in a double programme, there was the inevitable, and interminable, grinding of the curtain motors as the curtains were drawn/opened to expose more, or less, of the screen to cater for the differing aspect ratios. This was often accompanied by jeers from the impatient cinema goers (at least in British cinemas of the 50s/60s).