16×9 dvd from 4×3 video?

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This has been covered several times here please do a search.

But the simple thing to so is nest your sequence in a 16X9 sequence. Personally if you are just going to leave pillar bars on the sides then just leave it as 4X3, that way it will look normal when played on a 4X3 Television, and it will also automatically play with pillar bars on the side when played on a widescreen TV.

[David Roth weiss]

There is no quick workflow to do this properly and to create it letterboxed is no different than what you’d get if you played SD 4×3 on a 16×9 widescreen monitor.

To properly create a 16×9 version your would need to blow up the video to 133% and pan and scan every shot to recompose and repo and resize every title and graphic.

Hope this helps…

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Seawild]

Hello Pesky!

Depending on how you shot it you could just do an extraction from the 4×3 and make it 16×9; either 1.78, 1.85, or 2.35. Depending on how you framed it.. And of course you can move it north or south as needed for headroom..

This will be a big blow-up so you’ll lose some resolution.. For broadcast up to 20% blow-up is ok..(IMHO) If it’s not for broadcast or film.. It might still be ok…

Thanks,
Chris

[Paul Escamilla]

Thank you to everyone for the responses, and apologies about the search. I did do one but I never seem to have much luck with the search function on Creative Cow.

In any case, it does appear that trying to convert the footage to 16×9 is a royal pain, and that making the 4×3 dvd and allowing the monitor to add bars is the way to go.

Again, thanks, and if anyone has any other suggestions or tips, i would love to read them. I have not worked in 16×9 at all and it is a bit frightening.