Some may say I push buttons, while others may say I am the guy who takes the green out of a chroma key video, while others may just call me the editor. I would say I am a story teller.
After graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2002, I started working here at Cramer in the duplications department. Odds are, if you got a VHS from us around that time, I put the label on it and checked to make sure it worked. After that, I began compressing and authoring DVDs and was lucky enough to author the DVDs for “Cowboy Up! The Wild Ride of the 2003 Boston Red Sox” and the Boston Globe’s “Boston’s Greatest Sports Stories: Beyond the Headlines.”
Soon after that I started editing, and have been lucky enough to work with the best editors, directors, producers, cinematographers and animators in the business. Some of the stories I have told include ones for the Massachusetts Film Office, Jordan’s Furniture, Casual Male and the Yawkey Foundation. I have come to terms with my obsession with movies, and have worked on numerous 48 Hour Film Projects with my team, Glasseye.
Like I said, I consider myself to be a story teller, so if you got a good one let me know.
“Suite Talk” from Edit 1: A Tutorial on Aspect Ratios
By Barry Clegg
Episode 1: Fitting the rectangle peg in the square hole, a tutorial on aspect ratios.
Ever been watching the Red Sox / Yankees game and say to yourself: “Is it just me, or has CC Sabathia gained even MORE weight?” Most likely, you are at a friend’s house that has a brand new 1080p flat screen watching 4×3 Standard Definition and the image is stretched. Now, if you’re like me, this drives you more insane than the revolving personnel at the Red Sox shortstop position.
It can be extremely confusing to some when it comes to aspect ratios and video, but I am here to help. In music, different time signatures can confuse even a seasoned player, but at the end of the day you can break down any time signature into either a 3 or a 4. But this is a discussion for another day. Today, we are talking about images not sound, and we can break it down into either a rectangle or a square.
In the world of video you have 4×3, which is a square:
4x3 square
or, 16×9, which is a rectangle:
16x9 rectangle
Pretty easy, right? There is one more aspect ratio that is common for most people, but we’ll get to that later. Let’s just get any more confusion about these two out of the way. The confusions arise when you have a video of one and a playback device of another. The one you hear most is letterbox, or fitting a rectangle into a square.