varying widescreen ratios
Claudia Mastroianni
sure why. JMS has said the series was shot in 16:9. Is 16:9 what
we're seeing the episodes in, or is it the ratio the footage in the
opening *credits* runs in? The credits have even wider margins than
the rest of the episode.
Claudia
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Jms at B5
are not redoing the credits since they're composites, and they were (to go for
simpler vernacular) narrow in regular; if you don't change that footage, when
the rest gets reconfigured, you get narrower inside narrow, if that makes any
sense.
You'd have to recomp the whole credits sequence to make it sync up visually.
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Bart Barenbrug
> We see two different ratios in the widescreen broadcasts, and I'm not
> sure why. JMS has said the series was shot in 16:9. Is 16:9 what
> we're seeing the episodes in, or is it the ratio the footage in the
> opening *credits* runs in? The credits have even wider margins than
> the rest of the episode.
The series was shot in 16:9, and the video you see in the opening
credits is slightly wider (or should I say "less high") than that.
So my guess would be that that video material is slightly cropped
(top and/or bottom) from the footage that was shot (I suppose this
can be veryfied by comparing the opening sequence shots with the
corresponding shots in the widescreen airing of the actual show).
In the opening sequences for the later seasons there is text (actor's
names etc.) sticking out below this wider image. The total area
(comprising the video portion plus the text that sticks out) fits
nicely in a 16:9 image. So that's why the opening sequences were left
as they were in the full-screen versions: they already nicely fit
within a 16:9 frame. That's what I think anyways.
Bart