Mix of 4:3 & 16:9 video

ccliffy wrote on 4/8/2008, 1:12 PM

Can anyone tell me what project and render settings I should use?

I dont think I am too particular whether final video is WS or not. 80% of the video is a WS source. Prefer no letteroxing (black boxes above and below)

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Chienworks wrote on 4/8/2008, 1:57 PM

Well, if you want the output to be 4:3 then set up the project for 4:3. If you want the output to be 16:9 then set up the project to be 16:9. That's really a choice that you have to make.

Put all the clips on the timeline. For the ones that don't match the project settings open up Pan/Crop, right-mouse-button click in the cropping frame, and choose Match output aspect.

ccliffy wrote on 4/9/2008, 7:27 AM

thanks - didnt realize I had to crop

ccliffy wrote on 4/9/2008, 11:59 AM

decided to crop 4:3 to 16:9 and rendered it out as DVDA NTSC WS Video Stream. I checked off Stretch Video and project properties are WS

odd thing was the original 4:3 segments had a funny artifact - horizontal lines which seemed worse with more motion involved (though no problems with original footage)

Is this a result of cropping?

Screens:
http://www.futurekidsottawa.com/images/screenshot1.BMP
http://www.futurekidsottawa.com/images/screenshot2.BMP

Terry Esslinger wrote on 4/9/2008, 3:29 PM

Those look like interlacing artifacts. Did you try deinterlacing?
You do realize that playing 4:3 in a 16:9 project either gives you black bars on the sides, a distorted image (stretched widthwise) or loss of viewable footage and reduction of resolution, depending on how you do it.

ccliffy wrote on 4/10/2008, 7:45 AM

right now I have Project has Deinterlace method = None

Would Blend or Interpolate be better?
thnx

Terry Esslinger wrote on 4/10/2008, 10:51 AM

I would try a short segment of each and see which one you like (if either)