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16:9 aspect ratio in iMovie?
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We just got a new Canon ZR100 digital video camera and it does 16:9 recording. The problem is that I just tried importing a clip into iMovie and iMovie stretched the video upwards. How do I import miniDV 16:9 film into iMovie while retaining the 16:9 ratio?
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I think it's in the preferences somewhere where you change the setting.
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the ZR100 is a consumer-level camera, so Im guessing its 16:9 mode is hard matte. The CCD is still a 4:3 chip, so it records the 4:3 image and just blacks out the rest of it. You'll have higher resolution using 4:3, or better yet, getting a cheap anamorphic converter (theres a 27mm for only like 300).
Because it is most likely a hard matte, the letterbox is part of the signal. The image is still 4:3, so you just stay in 4:3... im not sure Im explaining this well... Basically, the back bars are part of the picture, so you have a fullscreen image that just happens to have only part of it visible. therefore, there should be no need to change the settings
The way I understand it, the only reason you would need to change any settings would be if you used an anamorphic converter, so you'd have to tell the computer/DVD player to stretch the image horizontally, or everything will look squeezed in and long and ungly and stuff.
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Originally Posted by loki74
the ZR100 is a consumer-level camera, so Im guessing its 16:9 mode is hard matte. The CCD is still a 4:3 chip, so it records the 4:3 image and just blacks out the rest of it. You'll have higher resolution using 4:3, or better yet, getting a cheap anamorphic converter (theres a 27mm for only like 300).
Because it is most likely a hard matte, the letterbox is part of the signal. The image is still 4:3, so you just stay in 4:3... im not sure Im explaining this well... Basically, the back bars are part of the picture, so you have a fullscreen image that just happens to have only part of it visible. therefore, there should be no need to change the settings
The way I understand it, the only reason you would need to change any settings would be if you used an anamorphic converter, so you'd have to tell the computer/DVD player to stretch the image horizontally, or everything will look squeezed in and long and ungly and stuff.
The cameras I used back 'bout 6 years ago had that hard matte look to them. It was as though they did the 16:9 just by cropping the top/bottom and smushing the rest together. This camera seems to support true 16:9 where it doesn't stretch anything to the side but actually extends the amount that you see when you record, but I can't get it to import into iMovie without it stretching upwards. I could be wrong, but didn't iMovie 5 add support for 16:9 (or whatever the latest version of iMovie is)?
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Go to File -> New Project
In that next dialog box there's a little triange called Video format or something.
Choose DV widescreen! 
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Originally Posted by macintologist
Go to File -> New Project
In that next dialog box there's a little triange called Video format or something.
Choose DV widescreen!
I just tried that and the only thing that happened was that I could type in the name of the new project, but it gave me no format selection. This is in iMovie 4.0.1. Is it the latest version that supports widescreen?
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