Converting 4:3 to 16:9

[aleebee156]

Hey guys, thanks for all the help thus far! I have some old footage that i shot a while back that was in standard 4:3 shot in 60i at 1/120. some of that footage would work wonders in a project that i am doing now only i am shooting in sqeeze mode and i was wondering if there was a way that i could convert my 4:3 footage to 16:9? let me know, thanks guys!

[Casalen]

Just drop it in your 16:9 timeline and stretch as needed. You'll either have to enlarge it a lot, cutting out the sides, or leave in black bars at the top and bottom. If you stretch it out the composition drastically changes and you lose resolution.

[Alasken]

You can drop it into a 16:9 which would make sense if most of your footage is 16:9. I'm not sure what Casalen means by stretching, but open the clip in the viewer, go to the motion tab and look at the distort settings. Change the aspect ratio to 33.33. I don't have FCP running right now, but I think the 33.33 is correct. There's a tutorial on Ken Stone's web site and either Shane Ross Or Capt Mench have a tutorial movie online.

[Olaf99]

You can drop it into a 16:9 which would make sense if most of your footage is 16:9. I'm not sure what Casalen means by stretching, but open the clip in the viewer, go to the motion tab and look at the distort settings. Change the aspect ratio to 33.33. I don't have FCP running right now, but I think the 33.33 is correct. There's a tutorial on Ken Stone's web site and either Shane Ross Or Capt Mench have a tutorial movie online.

I'm having a related issue although I was dumb enough to just combine the two and not notice until the end of a four hour editing session. The completed project has sqeeze footage and 4:3 combined and when played back on a TV the 4:3 looks fine but the squeeze stuff is tall and stretched with black bars at the sides. BTW I'm running FCE not FCP. Any remedies besides starting over???

[Alasken]

This should answer your questions.
http://proappstuff.com/proapptipsvid...E4842B45D.html
You'll have to change the aspect ratio based on what your timeline settings are (4:3 or 16:9) The 16:9 would be anamorphic.

[Olaf99]

This should answer your questions.
http://proappstuff.com/proapptipsvid...E4842B45D.html
You'll have to change the aspect ratio based on what your timeline settings are (4:3 or 16:9) The 16:9 would be anamorphic.

NICE!!!!! That did the trick all right. THANK YOU!!!

[aleebee156]

Thanks for the help guys! I have been super busy and haven't had a chance to try it yet, but hopefully tonight i can get down to it! Thanks again!

[Olaf99]

I did it, and it worked fine. However, when I burned a DVD the footage goes right back to 4:3. At least now their aren't any bars on the sides of the image but still...

I've read that iDVD doesn't produce 16:9 movies very well. I guess I was wondering if that's true. Is there no way to burn a 16:9 video using iDVD?