On Thu, May 17, 2007 6:13 pm, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:13 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: >> Yes, my suggestion is "don't" >> >> Any decent media player will recognise the video is 16:9 and play it >> with >> black bars on a 4:3 screen. Encoding black bars into a video file is >> just >> wrong! It is an incredible waste of bandwidth and quality. > > But it's exactly what you want if you want to have a 16:9 segment in an > otherwise 4:3 programme. > > Gordon > >
Certainly if you are mixing 16:9 and 4:3 sources in the one project one or other segment will need black bars coded in. Otherwise I struggle with the need. However I don't know exactly what the OP's project involves. > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > > -- Nick Rout _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
