Quote: I try to produce an extract from a longer video.
Original video aspect ratio is 16:9 so my project setting is the same.

Confirming. Your project's aspect ratio is set to 16 X 9 here?

Quote:

Quote: I try to produce an extract from a longer video.
Original video aspect ratio is 16:9 so my project setting is the same.

Confirming. Your project's aspect ratio is set to 16 X 9 here?

Yes, and clip aspect ratio as well.
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regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)

Check the setting of your PLAYER, to see if it may be doing a 4X3 conversion.

Can you upload a snippet of the video to an http or ftp server and link it here? Folks will check it out.

Thanks borgus1 for your suggestion. While trying to produce proper samples as you suggested, I've found out possible cause..

Maybe this result is caused by encoder settings? I try to produce using WMV profile with 720x576 frame size and it is 5x4 ratio (4x3 is close so I thought that was it).

What do you think? _______________________________
regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)

Yes this is the case though I am surprised, that PD offers aspect ratio formats which do not match project settings. It would be nice it shows a warning like it does in other cases i.e. frame rates difference.

BTW
Why do profiles exist like

DV-AVI 720x480
AVC 2048x1080
WMV 720x576

They do not match any of PD aspect ratios (16:9 nor 4:3)

Is this standard for PD, that it produces result movie of the aspect ratio set in encoder profile?
I thought it would add some black borders top-bottom or right-left to fit encoder settings and keep aspect ratio set for project.

If such behavior is standard, what is project setting (aspect ratio) for?
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regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)

Hi Tom -

I'm not sure what happened with your original production turning out to be 4:3, given that your project & source clips were 16:9.

Those profiles you mentioned (DV-AVI 720x480, AVC 2048x1080, WMV 720x576) do produce 16:9 videos. Using the same 16:9 source video, I just produced to each of those profiles. They all display as 16:9 (even though MediaInfo says the WMV is 5:4)

The profiles don't "look like" 16:9 because the PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) is non-square. For example, in the DV-AVI 720x480 profile the PAR isn't 1:1 (square) - it's 0.899:1

This explains the basics - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc294571.aspx

Cheers - Tony
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Hi Tony,

Now I remember. We talked about it a while ago. It explains a lot.
Strange thing is, that when I play my clips using Windows Media Player, they have proper aspect ratio but when using my favorite player (Bestplayer) they are narrower. Probably it cannot process non-square pixels

The most important is, that the same happens when I upload my clips to Youtube. They end up narrower

In this case correct me if I'm wrong please.
When I want to produce 16:9 aspect ratio clip to upload to Youtube, assuming it doesn't process non-square pixels, I should create WMV profile with 16:9 frame size and produce clip using it, shouldn't I? _______________________________
regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)

I have trouble remembering things too!

If it's for YouTube, choose a profile that uses square pixels. My understanding is that the YouTube player cannot interpret non-square PAR, so it will display incorrectly.

With WMV on YouTube, there have been quite a few issues like the one you've describerd. Often, you can get around it by adding "yt:stretch=16:9" as a tag in your video.

By the way, I just tested BESTplayer with the 16:9 WMVs - and you're right - it doesn't interpret the PAR properly. I can't read Polish so I can't work out if there's a setting that can be changed. VLC, MPC, WMP, GOP all display them as 16:9.

Cheers - Tony
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Thanks a lot Tony! _______________________________
regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)

Quote: With WMV on YouTube, there have been quite a few issues like the one you've describerd. Often, you can get around it by adding "yt:stretch=16:9" as a tag in your video.

This tag works like a charm! _______________________________
regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)