WIDESCREEN on a 60D?

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Artin

I have a Canon 60D and I want to start adding widescreen bars in post production, either by adding the black bars my self or just changing the aspect ratio.
However, I have no anamorphic lenses and I won't for a very long time. I have no way of really marking where the bars would be, so I'm wondering if there is a way I could get something similar to this: http://i.imgur.com/M6qnlrZ.png so I could use those lines as a reference. I'm worried I'll need an expensive monitor, but are there any easy ways to achieve this effect on a DSLR?
 
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Artin said:
I have a Canon 60D and I want to start adding widescreen bars in post production, either by adding the black bars my self or just changing the aspect ratio.
However, I have no anamorphic lenses and I won't for a very long time. I have no way of really marking where the bars would be, so I'm wondering if there is a way I could get something similar to this: http://i.imgur.com/M6qnlrZ.png so I could use those lines as a reference. I'm worried I'll need an expensive monitor, but are there any easy ways to achieve this effect on a DSLR?
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Yes there is a very easy way of achieving this by using Magic Lantern Firmware which is awesome and it is also free.
 
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If you don't care all too much about the LCD screen. Scotch tape.

It won't be exact but it'll give you a general idea of your framing. You can always add black bars in post, take a screenshot and view it back on the camera and go from there.
 
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NickysFX said:
Yes there is a very easy way of achieving this by using Magic Lantern Firmware which is awesome and it is also free.
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I haven't installed magic lantern yet but in the back of my head I thought Magic Lantern should have an option to do this, but I could never find any confirmation on their website or anything. Would you tell me where I could find that setting?
 
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Artin said:
I haven't installed magic lantern yet but in the back of my head I thought Magic Lantern should have an option to do this, but I could never find any confirmation on their website or anything. Would you tell me where I could find that setting?
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You go to Magic Lantern menu.

The 3th tab is Overlay . The image is a DSLR camera .

You move down to the Cropmarks and you unable it .


Works beautiful , don't make your life harder with tape and anything like that .

Install Magic Lantern , it's gorgeous , it has great features and it is a must for every DSLR filmmaker .

However something you must keep in mind is that Magic Lantern DOES NOT add the Aspect Ratio bars . It is just for reference , you must add them in post .
 
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NickysFX said:
You go to Magic Lantern menu.

The 3th tab is Overlay . The image is a DSLR camera .

You move down to the Cropmarks and you unable it .


Works beautiful , don't make your life harder with tape and anything like that .

Install Magic Lantern , it's gorgeous , it has great features and it is a must for every DSLR filmmaker .

However something you must keep in mind is that Magic Lantern DOES NOT add the Aspect Ratio bars . It is just for reference , you must add them in post .
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Right right, that's all I'm looking for. A few more questions if you don't mind: would you recommend changing the aspect ratio of the whole project file or just adding the black bars to the finished project? Also, what are the other things I can do with magic lantern? Is there a video or a list I could find with all of it's functions?
 
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When I started to learn DSLR shooting friend insisted to add black bars to the video and I not understand why.

Later I realized that they work like fake widescreen, cinematic style but what I tought was funny, no one seem to mention aspect ratio at all, just black bars. I have a collection of black bars for all the ratios and in my current film I use 1.85:1 and it works nicely.

I cannot see any point to add large black bars in the video to make it more cinematic if I do not understand at all what the aspect ratio should be, even if it is a fake aspect ratio.

I think the crop bars for magic lantern are 2.35:1 what is quite a wide image and standard dslr image is 1.77.
 
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