[Ed Dooley]

C’mon man! Do a little research! Scroll down just a day or so and you’ll find a whole thread about it.
Do a search of the posts and you’ll find lots, and lots, and lots more. Scale the 4:3 133% and drop it in a 16:9
timeline, reposition, and serve.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

This has got to be a first “it’s compressing too fast!”. 🙂
With your Mac Cleaner 6, do you have Sorenson’s SV3Pro? If you have
Sorenson 3 Pro on your Mac, but didn’t spring for it for your PC
version, you’ll see all the things you’ve mentioned. With Sorenson,
you’ve got to have the pro version to get the quality.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Maybe everyone should do a search. You don’t want to distort it 33%, and you don’t want to blow it up to 120%, you want to scale it, and it’s 133%. Search and you shall find (sounds almost biblical, doesn’t it?).
Ed

[Will Keir] “But you my friend must do neither. It’s actually not a big deal, but DEFINATELY do NOT distort your footage 33%. That’s just a poor solution and I’m sorry someone on COW actually advised you to do so. You want distorted looking faces? Me either.

So..

What your going to do is blow it up, I think it’s around 120% or so, then your frame is going to be larger than the 16:9 frame and you’ll lose part of the top and bottom of your orginal image.

The down side is that you’ll have blown up the footage a bit, and you WILL lower the quality, that’s just life, but it’s nothing to be worry about, you probably won’t even notice it. I’ve taken samples of 4:3 footage, blow up to 120%, and have seen them on a large screen, didn’t notice a thing. I think it’s around 150% or something that you start seeing the quality loss, play around with it, use your eyes and don’t sweat it too much.”

[Ed Dooley]

This has been asked and answered sooooo many times.
Do a search of the posts, you’ll find a ton of resources, here’s
just one of many:
https://www.proapptips.com/proapptipsvideotutorials/879F6B61-CFF9-4FD1-8D43-FDF89605611A/6ECEC931-47F1-4BC1-8CD4-41FE4842B45D.html

Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I do movement in stills all the time with no problem. I optimize the stills in Photoshop first, with
a 1 or 2 pixel motion blur, then do the move in AE using Easy ease. Some very busy photos when
imported into FCP still “buzz” a little, so I use the Flicker filter. I’ve never had a problem (did I say that?)
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

In Video Settings you have an option under Data Rate to Restrict to…
in kbits/second. Do the math. How many seconds in your video? How much can you fit on a DVD?
How many kbs do you need to fit that? Simple math, but you may be slightly off, so go a little lower than
your math suggests. AJA has a data rate calculator to make it even simpler:
https://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25717
Ed

[Jeff Carpenter] “Use H.264.

Beyond that you’ll have to experiment. Pick out some good “average” settings for it and see what you get. Then adjust upwards or downwards. I’d start by setting the frame size to 480 x 360. That’s a pretty good compromise in the size vs. quality balance. If you find that comes in very small you can up it to 640×480, but see what you get first.”

[Ed Dooley]

MPEG-2 file settings for DVDs compress video and audio as separate files (elementary stream).
An MPEG-2 with audio muxed into it is a program stream (not for DVDs). When you choose a setting for compressing there’s an audio selection too. In Compressor 2 you get to choose between
an AIFF audio setting and AC3 (Dolby2) or both. In Compressor 1 you export the audio to AIFF
then use A.Pack (which comes with Compressor) to compress to Dolby (AC3)
Read the manual, it’s all there.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Leave it to Microsoft to leave an old document on their site (and for me not
to catch it). 🙂
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

This from the Microsoft site:
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/UnderstandingHDFormats.aspx

4:1:1. Y is sampled at every pixel, but the Cb and Cr color information is only sampled at every fourth pixel, saving even more bandwidth. This sampling rate is used in consumer DV cameras and is currently the default sampling rate for the interlaced mode in the Microsoft Windows Media

[Ed Dooley]

It appears you only have the free trial version installed. You need to buy F4M to get more than 30 seconds.
Ed