Hello everyone. My situation is the following:
I shot on 35mm, open gate with a 1.85 frame in the viewfinder. So the full frame was registered but I framed for a 1.85 aspect ratio.
For the PAL telecine transfer, I told the lab to transfer the full frame instead of 1.85 (this was my mistake).
Now when I watch my material on my computer, many shots are cropped on the left and on the top (that is, I can see the matte or barn doors, I am not sure how to call them, that you put on the camera to prevent light from falling on the lens). Also in some shots, lights are visible in the areas to the top and left.
After some research, I saw that there are actually two 1.85 formats: offset 1.85 and super 1.85. Super 1.85 means just cropping the top and bottom of the full frame to get the final projected image. But what I had, offset 1.85, places a 1.85 aspect ratio image slightly to the right side of the negative, leaving space for analog sound. This means the vertical and horizontal measurements/pixels of the projected image will be cropped with respect to the full frame transfer I have.
Here is a link to a page which I found that explains the different aspect ratios:
http://www.efilm.com/aspect_ratio.swf
Eventually, I will give the time code and get my positive and the offset should be removed in the copy process.
Here is an image from my film which is offset and has elements on the left side and top. I do remember this framing being quite tight but I remember framing it so that it was clean. I just want to be sure.
I suspect that I will be told that I need to just go to the lab and get it transferred again, telling them to transfer at Offset 1.85 and not Full Frame.
But I am hoping someone can tell me how I can just crop my image on my editing program to see what my eventual positive will look like.
I hope this explanation was not too long winded. Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
