Converting Standard to Widescreen

1. stiv
   Member

   

   Is it possible to convert standard footage 4:3 into PAL widescreen. I have some footage that was shot as 4:3 but the client wants it burned to DVD as widescreen. I have started a new project in PR9 as widescreen template and imported footage. I then have to stretch the 4:3 footage to fit into the widescreen format which then blurs the original footage making it look bad. Do i have any options. Also the original footage is imported as an AVI via pinnacle as PR9 doesn't seem to support the audio on my Dazzle.  thanks

   Posted 9 months ago #

2. XTR-91
   Member

   

   There's two other ways of doing this: croping and scaling.  Cropping means you chop of the top and bottom sections. scaling means you add black bars to the sides .you can do this by resizing

   Posted 9 months ago #

3. grinner
   Member

   

    I'd not rescale anything. Just letterbox it.

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   Posted 9 months ago #

4. EarlC
   Moderator

   

   Letterboxing, in and of itself, does not WIDESCREEN make. Otherwise it winds up with black pillars and bars and only a reduced screen area. What I've found is that a vast majority of players available today provide playback that does a fairly decent job of filling a widescreen without pillars or bars, and sometimes if they do occur, minimizing the 4:3 look. Sometimes you can have pizza without making any quota at all ;-)

   Posted 9 months ago #

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