Given that most of us use a 4:3 aspect ratio TV and a 16:9 film is letterboxed when displayed on it then thats what can be done for VCD playback in a DVD player or on the computer screen.

You need an edit program like Premiere (5.1 I use) Panasonic stand alone encoder.

You can use a masked viewfinder and crop the image or use an anamorphic compression that squeezes the information in a 4:3 frame like the current DV cameras (TRV 110 in my case)

No problem at all, will shoot in 16:9 for my next project.

Burnt with Nero 4.0.7.5 as a compliant file.

Cheers

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 20, 2000

Answers

Yea, but can you get a true 16x9 widescreen picture with no black areas on a widescreen television?

-- The Lone Ranger (rutger_s@hotmail.com), January 20, 2000.

Yep I know, but for we poor or behind the times people who only have 4:3 aspect ratio TV's does that matter? You can also produce a full letter box in any aspect ratio the same way and we of the 4:3 brigade even look a DVD's that way don't we! All of this business is full of compremises.

The quality looks a lot better than my first cine widescreen production I made in 1969 (1969) thats for sure.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 20, 2000.

Forgot to add - does anyone make a 16:9 computer for us to play wide screen on? I think letterbox on a 4:3 is all we have, well at least 99.99% of us.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), January 20, 2000.