Redline CLI Anamorphic processing

[Luke Neumann]

I was wondering if anyone could help me implementing Anamorphic de-squeeze to my Redline process.

The file I'm working with is a 2x anamorphic shot in 8K. My current command is:

REDline -i $filepath -fit 4 --presetFile preset.xml --exportPreset "Overlai R3D" --outDir output --gpuPlatform 2 --cudaDeviceIndexes 0

As I understand it, "- fit 4" is the command for 2x desqueeze but it's not working. I still get a 5460x4320 file or whatever. the shot itself is properly desqueezed but the frame has big black bars on top and bottom.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

I haven't tried it recently but as I understand it --fit 4 will desqueeze and then FIT the image into the destination size (which is the original frame size when not specified) so it would explain the black letterbox bars and similar output file resolution.

You should try calculate your desired destination pixel size (10920 x 4320 would be a correct ratio for 2x desqueeze of your 5460 wide clip but not sure about going beyond 10000 pixels depending on your destination format, maybe it works fine but if not you should scale it down a bit) and specify those values in --resizeX and --resizeY as REDline parameters

hope this helps