How do I "Keep the aspect ratio" of one of my projects? I have some video files I've taken with my digital video camera that are in "widescreen" format, and when I use this program, the images are "stretched" to full screen.
Any ideas or suggestions?
"Keep Aspect Ratio"
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chiff_chiff
Re: "Keep Aspect Ratio"
you use mf to capture your footage? or a third party prog?BulldogCountry wrote:How do I "Keep the aspect ratio" of one of my projects? I have some video files I've taken with my digital video camera that are in "widescreen" format, and when I use this program, the images are "stretched" to full screen.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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peaches
I think you still need the Letterbox bumpers. (The black rectangles that appear when viewing Widescreen). I don't know how to do this in ULead MF (or even if it's possible) but you CAN use VirtualDub (a free video editor). Open the program and select Video Filters and then add the resize Filter. It has an option to expand the frame and letterbox you're content. The best way to do this is to figure out the dimensions of your video (670X300) and then decide which of the default sizes is the closest match to UMF's default sizes (708X480). Then calculate the new video size to match the desired width. (708/670=105.67% so multiply 300 by that and you get 317) Put the new desired size in the top two fields of the filter, select Expand and Letterbox and then put the total desired video size ie the UMF size(708X317 and then 708X480).
Since this is only a temporary file for burning/converting to DVD, throw a lot of biterate at it when chosing the AVI Codec. I normally use DIVX and set the bitrate to max. This makes AVI video so the downside is that UMF has to convert it again. There are other ways to convet the video including straight to DVD files and converting to MPEG 1 or 2 but I don't know any that are free.
Since this is only a temporary file for burning/converting to DVD, throw a lot of biterate at it when chosing the AVI Codec. I normally use DIVX and set the bitrate to max. This makes AVI video so the downside is that UMF has to convert it again. There are other ways to convet the video including straight to DVD files and converting to MPEG 1 or 2 but I don't know any that are free.