How can 4:3 end up 16:9?

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DVX100Shooter

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I know my DVX100 comes with a wide angle lens stock from the factory. I also know that if I want a wider view and to blow my footage up to a larger size that I should use a Anamorphic lens which I do not have nor used yet.

I shot some footage at an event over the summer and I edited it in FCP4. I then burned a DVD and everything is fine. The question that I have is that, I played my DVD on a portable DVD player with a flip up 7 inch wide screen. My project looks as if it was shot in 16:9. I didn't really notice it until I showed my work to a professional Avid editor at my job and he asked how did I get it to fit the wide angle screen. Again, everything looks really good and I have recieved very good comments about my project but I was just curious how I could go from 4:3 to 16:9 and I didn't adjust anything in FCP to output it to a widescreen format.
 
Re: How can 4:3 end up 16:9?

Well I have a Flat screen TV here at home and it looks the same way on there as it does on my portable dvd player.
 
Re: How can 4:3 end up 16:9?

Two things are happening, either the portable player and the flat screen are cropping your image to 16:9, or stretching it out to it.
You ought to be able to tell.
-CJ
www.arkhamfilms.com
 
Re: How can 4:3 end up 16:9?

Odds are, if it looks stretched, then a setting on either of the screens themselves (both the flat TV or the portable DVD) are on a 16:9 setting which is what's giving your 4:3 footage the squeezed look. You'd know if you shot originally in 16:9 if you had the wide screen aspect ratio and it did not look squeezed.
 
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