Tony Pat
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[John Rofrano] “No, there is no way to do this with Vegas Pro. That might make an interesting plug-in. I don’t have any TV’s that do this so I’ve never seen it. All of my HD TV’s have various degrees of cropping and of course just a simple stretch that looks terrible.”
That’s too bad.
The effect is available at least on Panasonic and Pioneer plasmas (the latter no longer made, unfortunately). When done well it provides a way to fill the screen without generating a lot of noiceable distortion in the center portion of the image. I guee the thinking is that most times, what’s in the center 30-40% of the image area is the most important.
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I’ve done a bunch of searching here and online and can’t seem to find if this is possible.
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What do you mean by “Disc based”? Are you making DVD’s? Adding letterboxing to 16:9 in a 4:3 frame is the job of the device that is serving up the video. A 4:3 TV doesn’t have a clue what to do with a 16;9 video so it squeezes it into the full 4:3 display. DVD players have this capability built-in and do the letterboxing for you. Media players may not. If your media player is not smart enough to letter box your 16:9 video when serving it to a 4:3 device then you need to render everything in two formats (16:9 and 4:3 with letterbox) or else throw away the 4:3 TV’s and get 16:9’s. There is no other way that I know of to solve this and this is why cable companies serve 16:9 letterboxed video as 4:3 which then becomes a postage stamp on a real 16:9 display. It’s very frustrating.
I meant hard disk based (should have been more clear). I guess I need to understand better how (in general) this works. My display has an Auto display size mode that will take an incoming signal and, if it is 4:3, automatically stretch it to fill the 16:9 space. This works for 4:3 content being sent by my cable provider and on plain-old 4:3 content from my DVD player (I do not have my player stretching this content before being sent to the display). But when I send the SD NTSC MPEG-2 content via WMP12 the set will not automatically stretch it; I have to force select one of the Wide modes.