• Adobe Premiere Pro

  How to letterbox my camcorder’s 16:9 output..?

  Posted by David Lincoln brooks on May 3, 2008 at 9:46 pm

  My camcorder is just a cheap, simple unit– a JVC EVERIO HARD DISK DRIVE doo-dah.

  It does possess the advantage of recording in high-definition, and in the 16:9 aspect.

  I’m a n00B at videography, and I’m wondering what to do about the aspect ratio… All my (computer) video players will play this footage at 4:3. The image is super-clear, but of course the imagery is compressed laterally till it’s super-skinny.

  How do you recommend I handle this footage in PREMIERE CS3 and AECS3? Let’s say I want to preserve that 16:9 aspect ratio… and publish this video to YouTube or burn it to DVD for watching on a 4:3 television screen?

  BTW, the output of this camcorder is MPEG-2 with AC3 stereo sound.

  Thanks, Dave

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  David Lincoln brooks replied 18 years ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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