[harrisjamieh]

I have some (OK, lots) of DV footage I have captured. The video was recorded in 16:9 format using mini DV camcorders. When I play the footage in Final Cut after exporting, it plays in the right format, that being 16:9, in the viewer. Problem is, when I try to view the raw footage in quicktime, the app doesn't realise the footage is 16:9, so it just stretches it to 4:3.

This isn't a HUGE deal, because Final Cut recognises it is widescreen, and hence the final finished video will be true widescreen, but for the time being I like to view the raw footage in quicktime to get a feel for it, but it is annoying that quicktime will not fill my lovely 17" iMac's screen with 16:9 video.

Any advice ?

Cheers

[hickey]

Im not sure if this is a limitation of quicktime pro or not, but it could be. So then, are you using Pro, or just version 7.xx?

[harrisjamieh]

I am using pro, yes

[MaxPower2k3]

well, not the best solution, but if you hold down the Shift key while resizing a quicktime window, it won't constrain the proportions of the window. So if you can eyeball the right proportions (or something close enough to them) that should work.

This is on QT7 pro, btw.

[Uncle Skeleton]

You can change the display aspect ratio of any movie in QT Pro in the Movie Properties (cmd-j), under the video track's Visual Settings pane. It's not ideal (since you'd have to change each movie individually), but it's a whole heck of a lot better than what it was before QT7 (you had to change matrix properties and use a calculater and what not). Also then you wouldn't have to eyeball it with the shift-resize trick.

Alternatively, you can use the app I wrote -- metadata hootenanny -- and set a playback distortion ratio in the preferences (Playback: Stretch Full Screen Width By: ), then you would only have to change it once, not for each file. VLC ought to be able to do this adjustment too, but I don't know for sure.