ny_lonestar

Great thx! that's what i was looking for David and thx for all the responses!

4-perf Super-35 Full Aperture is 1.33 : 1 (4x3) and 3-perf Super-35 Full Aperture is 1.78 : 1 (16x9).  However, most people shooting 4-perf Super-35 are composing for some widescreen aspect ratio (1.78, 1.85. 2.39) so cropping to 16x9 for a transfer to HD (which is 16x9) isn't going to kill you unless you had planned on using more of the height of the 4-perf Super-35 frame to make the 4x3 pan & scan version, rather than just extract that from the 16x9 HD master.

 

It would be better to do one 23.98P HD post and then make various NTSC and PAL versions from the HD master.

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Hello,

I work in post as an assistant editor and I we are currently taking on a project that is shooting in Super 35mm and finishing in both HD and NTSC. Now my question is...when they transfer from the film to HD what are we losing...is all the information there or is some being cropped. what is the aspect ratio of Super 35 vs HD? so would the production team have to frame it for 16:9?

Also would it make sense to first transfer to HD and then from HD to NTSC if they want to finish in both?

hoping this is the right forum to be in, maybe i should post this in the editors forum as well.

thx for any help

Andrea