16:9 and 4:3

[Steve Freebairn]

One of the easiest way to do this is to use a 4×3 project and then when you use 16×9 clips you can either right click on them in the project window and then select interpret footage and then have it use the Pixel aspect ratio of 1.2, then in the effects control window you would just scale the clip to 75% or the other way to do it would be to just scale the 16×9 clips by 75% vertically. Good Luck, the only difference between 16×9 dv and 4×3 dv is the pixel aspect ratio, so there shouldn’t be a playback problem.

[Marisu Fronc]

Steve-

You can set the project to audoscale – so your footage will automatically be scaled properly when it is placed on the timeline (great for mixing 16:9 and 4:3) it can save you oodles of time when you have about the same number of clips of each aspect ratio you need to use. I couldn’t see any difference in automating it as opposed to doing it a clip at a time (except for speed) UNLESS you are working 4:40 and don’t always want the 16:9 stuff letterboxed.

slainte,
marisu

[Steve Freebairn]

that is true, I was thinking about it from the perspective that his project is already edited. If you were starting from scratch, I’d for sure do autoscale