[MacDV] Importing Widescreen MP4

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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Steve Robertson <stever at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> Hi Guys and Gals,
>
> A client wants me to do some minor editing on an existing DVD. This is not
> a commercial, protected DVD, even though the seven minute video it contains
> is very "cinematic" and professional. It's widescreen and 24 fps.
>
> I used the latest version of Handbrake to extract the video. I used the
> default settings, which use H.264 to create an MP4 file. This extracted
> video looks beautiful when played using Quicktime. The widescreen video
> exactly fills a widescreen player.
>
> Then I tried to import this MP4 into FCE. Didn't work, and the error file
> was very cryptic. So I switched to iMovie HD. This app imported the MP4, but
> did not recognize the widescreen format. The imported file has black bars at
> top, bottom and right side.
>
> Does anyone know the secret to importing widescreen MP4 into a good editing
> program and preserving the widescreen format all the way to export of the
> edited version?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve R.
>
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