anamorphic export with side bars

nothing good to watch on tv so played some more....increased gain, about 10% saturation....

the mp4 on laptop uploaded to vimeo comparison... yikes.

left is vimeo and right is mp4 uploaded to vimeo... obviously brighter in oringinal mp4 so what's up with vimeo ????

raz, thanks for writing back. your solution of stretching is a good one as per Anne suggestion.

I put the arri sample into a timeline and exported the two clips ( yours and arri ) as 720p

I had to proxy to DNxHR SQ half resolution ( since I knew I was gonna export 720p) cause my laptop was choking on the arri stuff.

I adjusted levels ( in resolve it's a serial node you can use ), and in hindsight I shoulda added another node for " saturation" ( color ) for the arri clip cause it looks kinda drab ...

also, vimeo didn't give the the levels I was going for.... it's not quite as bright as expected, but who cares.

The whole thing for me, is to understand what's up with the format (anamorphic ) and having the correct dimensions and so on...

I imagine a real editing house ( post ) would be connected with title people, colorists, visual effect people, and so on.... so having the same exact stuff would be kinda important maybe ???

got the arri sample, prores mov 4444 and put into vlc and see the bars on top and bottom as expected....

now I have to keep learning some basic stuff while I learn and get inspired here...thanks for everyone's help.

I'm downloading the prores scope file ( 2 gig ) sample ...  gonna find out about this stuff one way or another....

ALEXA Mini Sample Footage (arri.com)

I put the mov file into resolve  15 just to see what I could  learn...and this is what I got:

which means I'm mystified and haven't helped at all....

maybe the black bars on sides got baked in during your xmf conversion to prores ?

this is interesting.

I'd be happy to hear more from anyone including poster re: solutions and so on.

to poster: where did you get your first image with no sidebars ? your original footage. where did you get that ??? The little box in picture says mxf for extension...and if that is original stuff, how did you get mov files ??

Just curious.

thanks for putting up short sample, but it's mov and I don't know where that comes from.  kinda confusing.

a while back a dp friend was shooting some tv show and used anamorphic with arri cause showrunner wanted the light ( horizontal flares ) but network didn't want black bars on top and bottom, so they cropped off the sides (using safety frame for 1080p I guess ) to omit black bars on top and bottom. Yours is the exact opposite. very strange.  but I'm an idiot and never used anamorphic. I'll probably learn a lot from you uploaded sample, so thank you.

normal film camera anamorhic was 2.39:1 sometimes rounded to 2.4:1

If I choose vlc aspect ratio of 2.39:1 and shrink the window on my full HD laptop, the bars on top go away but ones on sides remain. very weird.  some new digital camera chips are larger than the ones initially used to mimic full frame 35mm film ...so if you can find out which camera shot this stuff, that might help.

Sorry, I've noticed the first picture is too small, so I've uploaded here again.