4:3 to 16:9 conversion available?

[Blast1]

[vin2000] “is there anyway i can convert the entire footage, say export the entire clip as an avi and convert that to 16:9 or as an mpeg-2?”

16:9 is a screen aspect ratio, mpeg2 is a file format which can contain various flavors of video.
If you want to change 4:3 footage containing letterboxed video to 16:9 you can put it in a 16:9 project and scale the video to fit the frame, be aware it may look crappy as you probably increasing the size over 30%

[Vin2000]

hey blast,

thanks for the quick reply.

yeah, i just wanted to experiment with it. however, everytime i try to do that – convert it to 16:9, i get that “black border frame” around the footage. i got around that problem by simply encoding it in it’s par, 0.9. i was just wondering if there’s a way i can convert it without having that black border frame.

thanks,

vin.

[Scot Sheely]

You can do one of two things:

1) Use a hardware or software solution to “Up-res” the aspect ratio, or

2) Create a new 16:9 project, import your 4:3 footage, scale 130% for the vertical and 135% for the horizontal.

Be aware that this will create a huge hit on your system during the rendering and preview phase(s).

This latter method is a lot more palatable for most of us, since it requires no additional investment.

The nice thing is that it will not create artificial “bars” on the horizontal plane, as you mentioned. I always create a test DVD of the render and play

on a true widescreen TV / monitor. Take the disc to a friend’s house or a retailer like Best Buy if you do not own a big screen TV capable of a true

16:9 aspect ratio.

It is best to choose the “Squeeze” mode on the DVX100B camera when shooting to help avoid this issue in the future.

Again, shooting short test clips and playing with them in a 16:9 PPRO project will help you get to the point you need to be.

Good luck!

Scot Sheely

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[Blast1]

If you have 4:3 footage with a letterboxed video present, you simply open a 16:9 DV project, you import the footage, you put the footage on the timeline, you click on it to select it, Make sure you have FIT selected in the program monitor window, Open the Effects Control tab, under the Video Effects click on the little triangle to the left of Motion, you should see two Scales, the bottom one grayed out, click on the top one where it says 100, type 135 in the highlighted area hit enter, the the vdeo should expand to fill the program monitor, if there is some edging, uncheck the Uniform scale checkbox, and adjust the image where it needs, if off center adjust the settings under motion to position evenly.

[Vin2000]

thanks guys, will give it a try!