On 12 Aug 2002 08:36:51 -0700, brad_umbaugh@hotmail.com (Brad Umbaugh) wrote:

>Hey there. Recently I shot some footage on my TRV-900 under 16:9
>mode. I'd like to cut it together for viewing on a normal,
>non-widescreen television (so it will have black bars on the top and
>bottom). Here's how I've been going about this:
>
>-Capture the footage, which looks stretched when it's raw because it's
>being viewed on a 4:3 monitor despite being shot 16:9
>-Do some math and figure out that for a 16:9 image that's 720 wide (as
>DV is), I'll need an image height of 405, which is 84.4% of 480, the
>captured image height.
[...]

While the resolution is 720, the width is based
on 640 - use this number instead of 720 for
figuring the height needed to get the correct
(on TV) proportions...