Changing aspect ratio

Canonman5D3

Newbie Location: UK Joined: Jun 26, 2016 14:17 Messages: 17 Offline

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Aug 22, 2016 08:35

I have a video camera which shoots in full HD, however I have been asked to submit a file in 640 x 480 format. If I just produce the edited file in 640 x 480 all the items are truncated and look odd.

How am I best to overcome this? Is it just a matter of opening the footage in a 640 x 480 project, or do I have to crop everything?

Hicham_B

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Aug 22, 2016 10:22

Hi Canonman5D3,

On the very top of PDIR, near the settings button (cog), there is a ratio option [16:9] / [4:3].
Please choose [16:9] bevor jumping to the production.

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tomasc

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Aug 22, 2016 12:26

You will have black bars on the top and bottom.

Longedge

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Aug 22, 2016 13:04

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Canonman5D3

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Aug 22, 2016 14:14

Thank you so much. I looked everywhere!

PepsiMan

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Aug 22, 2016 18:33

Hicham's post...

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Filename	ur wife_8.mp4	Download
Description	1080 FHD to 480 SD production
Filesize	7463 Kbytes
Downloaded:	218 time(s)

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tomasc

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Aug 22, 2016 21:33

PepsiMan - The produced 640x480 mp4 looks like 4:3. The cars on the left side of the road looks too narrow and skinny. I guess there is not a 16:9 flag for mp4 like there is for some mpeg-2 encoded files. The alternative is to have correct proportion with the black bars on the top and bottom. The user has choices.

PepsiMan

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Aug 22, 2016 22:01

yes, produced 640x480 is 4:3 even though property says 16:9...

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tomasc

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Aug 22, 2016 22:14

You are funny PepsiMan. I prefer to watch a letterbox widescreen on a 4:3 tv or monitor if a widescreen tv is not available. It is human nature that some people can't stand to watch tv with the black bars on the top and bottom. They watch it as full screen cropping the left and right. Still others watch it full screen with the width compressed as in your video. People have always had choices.