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  16:0 into 4:3

  Posted by Geoffrey Mee on March 10, 2010 at 8:03 pm

  I’ve got a dvd that will be used in a video production I am putting together. It was shot in 16:9 and my shoot has been in 4:3 and will be mastered as 4:3.
  How do I unsqueeze the 16:9 to fit the 4:3. Thx

  Geoffrey Mee
  Documentary Cameraman/Producer
  Jakarta Indonesia

  Geoffrey Mee replied 16 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mike Kujbida

  March 10, 2010 at 8:40 pm

  There are two ways to handle this.

  #1 is to put up with the black bars on the top and bottom of the 16:9 clips.
  You could put some kind of out-of-focus/blurred pattern on a lower track to cover up the black bars.
  This techniques is done daily in the broadcast world and viewers are accustomed to it.

  #2 is to open up the Pan/Crop window on each 16:9 clip after it’s on the timeline, right-click and select “Match Output Aspect”.
  The trade-off with #2 is that a portion of the left and right sides get cropped off.

  The decision is yours.
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  Geoffrey Mee

  March 10, 2010 at 11:24 pm

  Ah ha!

  Ok, thx Mike

  I’ll use #2

  Cheers

  Geoffrey Mee
  Documentary Cameraman/Producer
  Jakarta Indonesia

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