[MacDV] Re: Converting 4:3 to 16:9

[Mark M.Florida]

If it's interlaced video, scaling it up like that will look *horrible* 
-- it will get "jaggy" and "stripey" and "liney" and stuff -- the 
interlacing won't scale right.

You'd be much better off just doing a letterbox mask and settling for a 
letterboxed image in a 4:3 video signal.

- Mark

On Oct 5, 2005, at 11:06 AM, sb wrote:

> You can pillarbox the image in FCP and then use that to burn to DVD.
>
> The only way to "convert" a 4:3 image to widescreen 16:9, IF you are 
> willing
> to blow up the image by 33% (also in FCP) using scale, and drop it 
> into a
> 16:9 sequence. FCP will shrink it to fit, so you have to go into the 
> motion
> tab and resize back to 100% which will make the 16:9 frame crop your 
> blown
> up image.
>
> I'm not certain, but you also might have to set the 16:9 flag in the 
> clip
> properties.
>
>  regards,
>
>  sb
>
>
> On 10/5/05 8:12 AM, "whoisquilty" <whoisquilty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in converting a 4:3 video to widescreen 16:9 DVD. I'd
>> like to crop off the image and encode it to MP2 as anamorphic.
>>
>> Are there any tools that do the cropping? I've got Final Cut Pro and
>> DVD Studio Pro...so I can edit it. And I know about burning DVDs. I
>> just don't know how to crop it and what to expect on the final disc.
>>
>> Will it get blurry on a widescreen television? If I go from 720x480 to
>> 720x405, then stretch it back to 720x480 on encoding to MP2...will I
>> notice any loss in image quality?
>>
>> Or, should I create it as a comp in After Effects?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Jer
>
>
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