Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
If the vertical black bars are actually present in your recording, does that mean they would show up on a standard tv as having a black border. Similar to say, a non anamorphic widescreen release on a ws tv. You could just chop off the sides, right?
I'm really anxious for a copy of this movie. I joined a film club at my college and would love to show it during one of our "private" meetings.
If the vertical black bars are actually present in your recording, does that mean they would show up on a standard tv as having a black border. Similar to say, a non anamorphic widescreen release on a ws tv. You could just chop off the sides, right?
I'm really anxious for a copy of this movie. I joined a film club at my college and would love to show it during one of our "private" meetings.
I believe the trick is to flag the 16:9 video and 4:3 pan and scan in authoring.
If you watch the film on a 16:9 tv set you get the image in the center of the screen with plag bars down the sides like you would if you were watching 4:3 footage, only in this case the black bars are part of the image.
If you watch it back on a 4:3 tv, instead of letterboxing the image and so getting black bars on all four sides, you use pan and scan which will crop the left and right sides of the image, so you still see the 4:3 part of the image on your 4:3 screen.
The only major downside is that because you have anamorphically squeezed your 4:3 image, you have lost some of the horizontal resolution in doing so, so the image will not be as good as a natural 4:3 image which is what would have been shown on analogue tv in the uk.