But I'm transferring an old movie from my collection, and I really don't want to muck around with the original composition as designed by the cinemaphotographer and director. If I just let the video fill the whole 4:3 preview screen in PD, then I can see that I'm cutting off a very large portion on all sides.
I'm considering re-sizing the picture down so the top and bottom edges of the original film image hit the top and bottom TV Safe Zone lines - it leaves the sides of the film a bit narrower than TVSZ, but that's OK.
Would you more experienced PD users do it that way, if you're concerned about the integrity of a picture's original composition?-- Will this just end up looking ridiculously small on modern 16:9 TVs? --or will the height be filled in on those screens with just the sides coming short? Or--?
I'd appreciate input on this. It will be helpful when I do any more old film archiving like this.
rbowser
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