That would have given you a letterboxed image in a 640 x 480 frame - but I just opened the clip in quicktime and it's 640 x 360, not 640 x 480.
Personally, I would export it as 640 x 360 - just as you did - but don't turn letterboxing on. That should give you a widescreen box filled with a widescreen image. Brook On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:51 AM, David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok... I used the Sanyo Xacti HD1A. The source video was 1280X720, 30 fps mp4 > video. I edited in FCE, then chose export using quicktime compression, and > did this: > > - under format, chose mpeg-4 and clicked options > - chose mp4 under file format > - chose h.264 under video format > - did the 640x480 image size (chose custom) > - clicked the preserve aspect ratio using letterbox checkbox > > My ultimate goal is to get the video onto my blog and my iphone. > > Am I doing this right? > > David King > davidleeking.com - blog > davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Brook Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 640x360 IS 16:9. It doesn't need to be letterboxed. It will be a >> widescreen frame. The additional pillarbox in this file is probably >> there because fitting a 16:9 frame inside a LETTERBOX inside another >> 16:9 frame makes it smaller on all sides. >> >> But to know EXACTLY what happened we need to know: >> >> Is the source sequence or file 16:9? or 4:3 with a letterboxed image? >> Or something else? And what format? >> >> Letterboxing is only used if you are trying to fit a 16:9 image in a >> 4:3 frame while preserving the full image (e.g., putting an anamorphic >> DV source inside a standard 4:3 image). >> >> Brook >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> Brook Hinton >> film/video/audio art >> www.brookhinton.com >> studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab >> >> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > -- _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
