Get rid of the Letterbox for 16:9

bkthiess wrote on 6/13/2004, 6:48 PM

I have footage of my daughter's gymnastics. It was filmed in real 16:9, not letterbox, on a Sony PC-105. I imported the clips, and MS shows them as widescreen. Even the thumbnails are wide. I set up the project as NTSC DV Widescreen, and made sure that every event is listed this way as well. The preview shows it as anamorphic. (When I switch project properties to 4:3 a letterbox appears in the preview, then disappears when I switch back to 16:9).

However, when I render to MPEG-2, it automatically puts the movie in a letterbox. I ran it through DV patcher as suggested earlier in these forums, but that just stretches the letterbox. It seems like it should not be forcing a letterbox during the render, but should just render a 16:9 image (being a vertically stretched 4:3 image).

Any suggestions????

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allyn wrote on 6/13/2004, 10:29 PM

on the render settings dialog box (just after clicking "make movie"/"save to your hard drive") you need to make sure that "stretch video to fill output frame" is checked. it sounds like it is not.

bkthiess wrote on 6/14/2004, 5:16 AM

Thanks. I'll try that next time. It sounds easier than what I finally did.

I went through every video clip and right clicked, clicked properties, and unchecked the maintain aspect ratio box. Then I found out that I could also select all the video clips with the selection tool, then right click, click "switches", and make sure the "maintain aspect ratio" box is unchecked. Then it rendered just fine, and I patched it with dv patcher.

Thanks for your help, though. Your way sounds much faster! :)