[adele]

Hi, i recently filmed a lot of footage for a dvd that is going to be sold later this year. I was filming the footage in 16:9 widescreen mode, however when i import it onto my imac it is not in widescreen mode. I have looked around in the menus ect but cannot find anything that will help. I have quite a old imac g3 running os9, is there anyway i can edit this footage in 16:9 mode?

thanks

[Tyler McAdams]

Is the picture distorted once imported to iMovie? Are you using iMovieHD?

[Spoffo]

If the picture looks "squished" tall and thin, then you have the entire WS picture, just displayed in a 4:3 frame. You can go ahead and edit it like this, and then when you have it all finished, burn it to a disk image instead of a Disk. Then you can take MyDVDEdit ( a freeware downlaod) and use it to re-set the aspect ratio flag in the IFO file, If you then burn this editied file to a DVD, it will play back as normal widescreen. - - letterboxed on 4:3 monitors and full screen on 16:9 ones.

[adele]

Hi, yes the picture is distorted. im pretty sure its just squashing the 16:9 into 4:3. Hey Spoffo what i plan on doing to putting the vid it back onto the camera via the firewire. It just seems that imovie doesnt support 16:9, as when i just have the camera turnt on when its connected to the imac it still doesnt show it in widescreen mode on the mac even tho it is in 16:9 on the camera. I really want to start editing this footage will i actualy have to get a new imac to edit in 16:9 LOL!!??

[ism]

On OS9 using iMovie 2 your only option is something like this: http://www.virtix.com/imovie/products/Virtix16x9.asp

Which will letterbox your widescreen footage to suit 4:3. I doubt iMovie2 understands 16:9 footage. You could try exporting back to camera and then playing from the camera to a widescreen tv to see if iMovie flags it correctly, but my guess is that it won't work.