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Old 2008-06-26, 11:50 PM
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What's the aspect ratio of this?

16:9 or 4:3?

Not this one, I cropped it. The screen cap below.
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Old 2008-06-26, 11:52 PM
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Re: What's the aspect ratio of this?

16:9 or 4:3?
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Old 2008-06-27, 12:18 AM
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Re: What's the aspect ratio of this?

Did you only cut the black bars on the above pic? Then you can do: 714 (pixels) / 330 (pixels) = 2.1636363636363636363636363636364

So it's about 2.16:1

If you wanna know with the black bars, it's:

720 (pixels) / 480 (pixels) = 1.5

So it's 1.5:1.

On commercial DVDs, the aspect ratios you see on the covers are without the black bars, i.e 1.78:1 for 16:9 movies (16 / 9 = ~1.78).
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Old 2008-06-27, 12:55 AM
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Re: What's the aspect ratio of this?

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Did you only cut the black bars on the above pic? Then you can do: 714 (pixels) / 330 (pixels) = 2.1636363636363636363636363636364

So it's about 2.16:1

If you wanna know with the black bars, it's:

720 (pixels) / 480 (pixels) = 1.5

So it's 1.5:1.

On commercial DVDs, the aspect ratios you see on the covers are without the black bars, i.e 1.78:1 for 16:9 movies (16 / 9 = ~1.78).
So with the black bars, do I author as 4:3 or 16:9?
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Old 2008-06-27, 04:01 AM
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Re: What's the aspect ratio of this?

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So with the black bars, do I author as 4:3 or 16:9?
For the above example: 16:9. There are also 4:3 broadcasts with 'black bars'.

Authoring programs give you only following choices: 16:9 Letterboxed, Pan & Scan, and L + P&S; 4:3. For 16:9 it's better to choose always letterboxed, as P&S in most cases will look distorted on 4:3 TV. L+P&S option takes some space of a DVD, and If the end-user selects Pan&Scan as the viewing preference for his or her DVD player and the content is not Pan&Scan vector encoded, then only the upper-left area of the video image will be seen during playback. In other words, only choose the 16:9 LB/P&S option if the content is pan-scan vector-encoded..

You may check aspect ratio of the source video file by GSpot. However, the flag may not always be correctly set - then use your eyes

Aspect ratio of a DVD or .mpg file may be quickly corrected in PgcEdit, DVDPatcher, and by a few other free tools. For a DVD the flag is written in *.ifo/bup files hence video (*.vobs) is untouched.
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Old 2008-06-27, 11:47 AM
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Re: What's the aspect ratio of this?

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For the above example: 16:9. There are also 4:3 broadcasts with 'black bars'.


You may check aspect ratio of the source video file by GSpot. However, the flag may not always be correctly set - then use your eyes
Thanks, found it in GSpot.
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Old 2008-06-27, 11:24 PM
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Re: What's the aspect ratio of this?

most people never do! Congrats.
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Old 2008-06-28, 09:40 AM
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most people never do! Congrats.
I had seen it so many times, but it just didn't register.

Funny thing is, even the ones that look like WS or 16:9 are actually 4:3.
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Re: What's the aspect ratio of this?

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most people never do! Congrats.


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