[Ole Schell]

Hey John,
Do you remember me? Four years ago I was about to jump off a bridge trying to deliver a documentary film to distributors. I had all kinds of problems and you called me and spend a couple of hours talking me through it. I will never forget that.
So nice of you!
I will give this a shot and report back!
All the best,
Ole

[Ole Schell]

Hey Eric,
Thanks so much for the response.
So here’s the deal, I need to blow up to hd cam which is 1920 X 1080
and then also to digitbeta which I am guesing is 720 X 480.

So I discovered that to make my uncompresed QT actually widescreen I can do 853 x 480 (854 x 486). I did this and was able to pretty much fix my aspect ratio issue. It is slightly smashed but the lab says that is normal and they can fix it.
Now there may be another problem. I am not sure. To make certain that my uncompressed file was all good, I made a dvd out of it in architect and it looked terrible. I could see some of the horizontal video lines and it looked like it had interlacing issues.

Just to make sure I made a straight 720 X 480 file out of the same timeline vegas timeline and then a dvd from that and it was fine.
So I am at a loss. The issue seems to be the 853 X 480 which I think I need to be truly widescreen.
I will give my firstborn to anyone who can help me. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE HELP ME. Thanks!