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Hi everybody, I´m shooting a crime TV series in Sweden. We are planning to shoot a dreamlike flashback sequences for our main character. The director and I want to shoot these sequences with anamorphic lenses to get the look of anamorphic lenses (flares, bokeh etc). Unfortunately we need to crop the anamorphic image to 16:9 HD (1920x1080) for delivery. The series is shoot with Alexa MINI and Alexa SXT in 3.2K ProRes 4444 QX. The delivery is 16:9 HD for TV broadcast and web stream. For flashback sequences we have obtained the KOWA Mirrorscope T2.3-T3.4 Anamorphic lenses with a squeeze factor of 2x My question is: In what sensor mode should I record in camera? 16:9, 6:5, 4:3 or Open Gate? And what’s the resolution? 3.2K or 2.8K? Because we need to crop/fit the 2.39:1 image to an 16:9 output I need to frame for 1.78:1. Which frames lines should I use? ARRI 1.78? What is the best way to crop the image? We don’t want black bars on the top and bottom. This means that we need to crop the image from the sides. Thanks in advance! Regards, Benjam