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  converting to 16:9 in post

  Posted by Rand Courtney on October 17, 2010 at 8:45 pm

  I stupidly shot 480i video for a friend but forgot to select the squeeze mode and now I have 4:3 aspect ratio. She wanted 16:9. Is there some way I can convert the footage I shot into decent looking 16:9 video?

  I changed it to 16:9 in FCP during an export but it looks all stretched out.

  Michael Sacci replied 15 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Sacci

  October 18, 2010 at 4:33 pm

  You have to do a center crop of the image, so you are zooming in 133%. There will be a quality hit. For best quality I would do this in Compressor.

  Frames Control: On
  Resize Filter: Best

  Geometry:
  Source Inset Crop to: 16×9 1.78:1
  Dimensions: 720×480, NTSC (16:9)

  And you will get what you want.

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