Aspect Ratio problems

[John Rofrano]

> To obtain this on AVI, I have to actually resize the video. I prefer reducing it because making it bigger would see everything distorted.

There is no need to reduce it. All of the information is there for 873×480 with absolutely no loss of quality. Widescreen pixels are wider (1.2121) and therefore the real resolution is actually 873×480. You can reduce it if you’d like but nothing will be distorted if you render at 873×480.

> One last question: I’m doing a custom template 704×396. (it gives me 16:9, I calculated it) with a PAR of 1. If I want to include, let’s say, a 480p video (640×480), what is the PAR I would assign to that video?

You need to crop the 16:9 in order to get 4:3. You cannot simply change the PAR. If you follow my advice and create 873×480 you will get the 480 video you want. If you want to cop to 4:3 then you must re-render the video with a 4:3 crop on the original 16:9.

~jr

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