Stretching the mobile clip too fit..

[garjobo]

Inserting iphone and clips from other mobiles into VS - but they are all 'phone shaped' clips - eg, small, narrow. I obviously can 'stretch' them at the sides to fill the screen but naturally will look bloated. Is there a special natural settings i can do to solve this problem?

On another note, not certain how i want my final projec too look...widescreen or not...what would you recommend? for todays tv's is it best to adjust frame, 16.9?

And, i see on EDIT FORMAT FILES, im using 'mpeg' would quality be better if i switched it too Microsoft AVI files?

[skier-hughes]

The files would no doubt be mpeg files, [m?]p4 wrapped in a mov container, so editing in that format would be best. Outputting the same, depending on what you want to do with your files.
If you don't mind watching short squatty people you could stretch the video files to fill the screen, but in reality your two choices are to use it as it is and have a black border, or to insert a background. WHat the news these days where they use these sorts of files, they use a blown up version of the file to fill the screen, have it slightly less prominent and blur it, so the screen is filled but the main video is still what catches your eye.
You could add a coloured background or any other that you want.

Going forwards, I would film in landscape, problem solved, phones do turn round you know

EDIT: Graham it was me (Ken Berry) who made that addition in the first line, adding [m?] before your original 'p4' since I assume you meant the files, coming from a smartphone, were most likely mp4 and/or wrapped in a .mov container file -- as most smartphone video clips seem to be one or the other these days! Cheers, did I mistype it

I would also add substantively that there is absolutely no reason to convert the original to Microsoft AVI...

[aljimenez]

You could also crop the videos and make them fit better to a 16:9 format, if possible.