Compressor settings for Iphone HD aspect ratio problems

[Daniel Low]

What aspect ratio problems are you having?

Compressors iPhone preset should work fine.

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[James Mulryan]

Hi Daniel.
Sorry it took so long to get back to your question. The aspect looks stretched on the horizontal plane when loaded onto my iphone. They also look stretched when I play them back in ituned prior to loading onto my phone.
Thank you.
Jim

James Mulryan
Sunset Park Media, LLC
Santa Monica, CA
info@jamesmulryan.com

[Peter Axford]

You can just use the iPod/iPhone defaults in Compressor 3 – they should automatically letterbox your HD footage or there is an option to anamorph the shots – if it isn’t happening change the manually set it. This is what I have been doing the last few days (NB my footage is either widescreen PAL (576/50i) or 1080/50i)

Copied the H.264 for iPod video and iPhone 640×480 (found under Apple > Apple Devices)

Changed “Device” to iPhone (Local/WiFi)
Changed “Aspect Ratio” to 16:9 (480×270)
Changed “Frame Rate” to 25

This is giving me really good results and the beauty is the iPhone screen is 480×320 so it is basically a native format for the screen without the need to up or down scale. You do get black bars top and bottom as the iPhone screen is 3:2 (1.5:1) not 16:9 (1.77:1) but there should be no stretching.

Hope this helps.

[James Mulryan]

Hey Peter:
Thanks for the info, will give it a try.
Best,
Jim

James Mulryan
Sunset Park Media, LLC
Santa Monica, CA
info@jamesmulryan.com