16:9 HD to 4:3 SD

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David Evans

Well-known member
Hi,

In two weeks I'll be entering a film project that only accepts final products in 4:3 format. I don't wish to film in 4:3 as I want to keep my film for other contests so I'll be shooting 16:9 HD as I always do and then add my cinemascope bars.

So I followed my regular procedure and edited a video on a 16:9 1080p timeline and exported it into a wmv. Then I imported it into a 4:3 project to redimension the video according to the specifications of that festival. Of course the image is much bigger than the Premiere 4:3 project would allow, so I changed the scale to 41,1% to try to fit it... But the quality becomes much much worse. How do I make this work? Anyone knows how?

Then I'll need to record it to a dvd. Can I export it as a wmv (a format that I am comfortable with) and then record the dvd, or is it better to export as a mpeg2?

Thanks!!
 
Because you are trying to fit a 1920x1080 image into a SD timeline, there will be a lot of quality loss which is unavoidable.
 
take your HD footage and export it as SD. don't open a new SD project, insert your footage and re export. Thats just wasting time and diminishing the quality even further.
 
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