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4:3 to 16:9
I recently edited a project that was shot 4:3. I edited it as such. Now I see the client is showing it on a widescreen TV and squeezing the image! Is there any way to go back in and easily make the project widescreen? Should I just letterbox the entire project? What will happen when they play it 16:9? HELP. They think it looks fine. We’ve got to help educate these people! What can I do to make it right?
Thanks.
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Letterboxing is not going to help cause it’ll still be 4:3. If you can deal a quality loss you can start a new anamorphic sequence and scale-up your footage to fit it, or just make 16:9 with 4:3 image on center and letterboxing on sides.
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Check this out:
As said above… your two options are to either let the TV handle the video itself with black bars on the side (vertical letterboxing) or sometimes there’s an option on the TV to only squeeze out the outside 20% of the video to fill the 16:9. Looks goofy until you get used to it.
OR — handle it yourself and take a small hit on quality. BUT if you’re going to DVD it won’t matter much.
Good luck,
CaptM
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