16x9 pre or post or both

[xcult]

I was just wondering if you should film 16x9 and just keep it full screen after you up load it.
Or film in full screen and then just change it in the editor.

I have seen talk here and there about it, but was hoping for some perspective.
Thank you.

[Randy Robinson]

I usually prefer to film in 16x9 because most cameras record a higher resolution while at this setting. Then I keep the film in 16x9 in editing as well.

I say film in 16x9 and then do everything else in editing.

[evildave]

Never shhot 4x3 then strech it to 16x9, u instantly loose quality and u fuck up the aspect ratio. Shoot 16x9 and edit 16x9. 16x9 is now the standard movie ratio on all FILM & VIDEO cameras.

[steelweb]

All major film studios shoot in fullscreen and matt the final picture to a widescreen ratio. Most of the courses and workshops I have taken have advised this also... not all cameras that say theu are filming in 16x9 are axutally doing it... you camera only records so many pixels at a time anyway.

[evildave]

Who the hell told u that? I work for a film company and have never worked an any kind of film that shoots 4x3 fullscreen. Most films are shot using anamorphic lenses to give a 2:35 ratio for cinema or just 16x9 if they cant afford it. I dont understand why people think that by placing black bands at the top and bottom of the screen makes the footage 16x9 widescreen? 4x3 ratio will soon disapear as the american tv companys move into HD, its already happened in the UK

[unabel]

Sorry steelweb, but you've been misinformed. No major studio shoots full screen and then matts the picture. Beta SP, Digibeta and DV are all recorded full screen but most cameras now have the option of changing over to 16x9, whether or not it's true 16x9 is another story. The DVX-100 actually crops off part of the image in order to force it into 16x9 while the XL shoot true 16x9. Prosumer HD cameras, like the HVX also shoot full screen with the option of switching to 16x9. Film however is almost always anamorphic and so is 1:85 or higher.

[donpayasos]

The bottom line is that you want the maximum amount of digital information inside your final 16X9 frame, for the highest resolution, so you don't want to shoot 4:3 and then go chopping bits off, since that's wasting data.
SOME studio films in the past have shot square for TV and masked for the cinema, but it's far from standard practice today, I don't know if ANYBODY does that anymore.