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musicvid10 wrote on 6/16/2012, 11:32 PM
Where is the aspect ratio "off"? In the preview? Match Media Settings.
In the render? Set the output aspect as needed and "Stretch to fill . . .".
Crawdaddy79 wrote on 6/17/2012, 8:59 PM
What resolution are you coming from, and what resolution are you going to?

By default, MS 11 adds black bars to keep the integrity of the aspect ratio. If you have "stretch video" selected in the Render dialog, it will distort the video.

Edit: Additionally there is a pixel aspect ratio that you can adjust within a render config. If that is incorrect, it can cause distortion as well.
UKharrie wrote on 6/18/2012, 6:19 AM
This is really important if it affects you...but software writers like to hide such features with boxes, icons etc.
Yet a simple graphic with "input aspect" and then "output Aspect" could give you the different way of achieving this. It may be complicated with multi-camera sources, but that's what software guys are paid to make simple - surey one timeline could be tagged 4:3 and that gets a different "stretch" during Rendering?
VMS
In the past I've used 4:3 Stills (briefly) overlayed on 16:9 so there are no black-bars which look ugly. Provided the underlying footage is very "similar" no-one notices. Each Still is approx 1 second=25 frames. I use an accompanying audio too.
An ability to easily TAG this for stretching wouldn't do it, IMHO -what you need are "more pixels" - it's rather confusing.
andrew991116 wrote on 6/20/2012, 12:08 AM
@UKharrie
Could you elaborate? I feel like that you are on to something, but don't understand, since I'm a beginner.