Yeah I know I’ll have to crop the image & this juxtaposed to HDV will look quite bad I realize. However, for this project I’d rather upconvert rather than down convert the HDV despite the loss in quality. I’m going to simply apply some “artsy” effects to help cover up the bad quality & make it look like a stylistic technique. Recently I have been filming in anamorphic but at the time I filmed the DV footage I wasn’t aware that I would be splicing it HDV.
Initially the 4:3 footage stretched the entire image to fill the frame even though I had the image cropped. But when I went back for a second attempt the cropping worked fine & the footage displayed as normal successfully outputting to 1080i.
I must say that while the footage is clearly not anywhere near the same quality as the HDV it is still usable for this purpose (at least by my standards, which may be pretty low haha).
Thank you for your response.