Ratio help

thebrain900 wrote on 2/10/2012, 9:42 PM

I know that whem a Movie is shot in 16:9 widescreen and it is ment to be seen as widescreen they will put it in LatterBox on DVD.

This is so if you play it on a none widescreen TV it will put the black bar at top and bottum of the TV screen. This keeps the Movie in the widescreen Ratio I get this.

But when I read about Anamorephic widescreen it says it is a way to put widescreen Movie on a standard TV.

Is this not the same thing please tell me what I am missing?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/11/2012, 4:38 PM

I did a Google search and couldn't find the word "Anamorephic" anywhere.

Did you mean anamorphic?

Anamorphic video has to do with the shape of the pixels. It's the reason why a 720x480 pixel video, for instance, can be either 4:3 or 16:9 widescreen. One type uses pixels that are taller than they are wide, the other uses pixels that are wider than they are tall.

Your options for displaying 16:9 on a 4:30 TV are either:
1) Letterboxed, with black along the top and bottom;
2) Full screen, with the sides of your video cut off; or
3) stretched tall and skinny, which you probably don't want.

MSmart wrote on 2/12/2012, 9:44 PM

I believe thebrain is still trying to resolve this issue:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=12&MessageID=798305