Screen aspect ratio

I had to re-install Vista on the Bootcamp partition and now the aspect ration on the monitor (iMad21) is wonky. What can I do?

Now let me correct my spelling as this is what you get when you don't look up . . .
I had to re-install Vista on the Bootcamp partition and now the aspect ratio on the monitor (iMac21) is wonky. What can I do?

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Wide screen aspect ratio help

hi everyone im new in final cut pro, and i need some guidance, help or tutorial on how to achieve the widescreen aspect ratio to give the video more like a film look and feel, i need to know how to do this without distorting the video or cropping or making it look stretchy it if its possible. A tutorial would be awesome please if someone can help me, i would really appreciate this i looked around for this but i cant really find anything (i might have been looking in the wrong places :[ ) thanks

im not sure this are the dimensions 1280 × 720 i think (im not too sure) it was wide screen. for example if i used my iphone for in landscape mode i think it comes out wide screen right? so then how would i do it not sure what really but is there any chance that without it having to be shoot wide screen make it wide screen without it looking bad ??

Screen aspect ratio preferences for future TP panels ?

Few days ago during a meeting with Lenovo's pre-sales managers i've raised (also) the issue of panel aspect ratios for productivity vs. entertainment notebooks. I had in mind the W, T and S series.
Bgnd info: Vs. the letter paper format of <1.3, usually the text and code reader/writer prefers 4:3 and 3:2 tall-squarish formats, while moviegoers (not producers!) favor 16:9 or wider. Also the higher-end tablets adopt the more squarish formats for web browsing, despite the inherent black bars for wide video content.
Back to the Lenovo meeting: When asked to explain the paradox that Apple, Samsung, Chrome Pixel, Dell and other arguably 'entertainment'/consumer notebooks & tablets come with 3:2 or 16:10 screens --while the "productivity" TP's have all settled on the 16:9 format!-- one brave Lenovo manager has argued that "the engineering student also watches a video in the evening, on the same TP"... :-)
[i thought only a bad student would compromise his 12+ hrs of reading / writing / coding 'productivity' in exchange for 90-min of video enjoyed perhaps w/o black borders... yet i kept quiet, enough fire was already flamed :-) ]
Nonetheless, he has kindly agreed that the panel format argument is not new, it remains open, and the 16:9 panels are indeed the most cost effective (largest production lines, not dis-similar from another cost argument, i.e TP's decay from its distinctive 7-row KB layout to the current 6-row generics).
The future, he said, remains open for better, new/old concepts & machines to be reintroduced perhaps by popular demand etc (personally i speculate a new 17" perhaps). We all know the drill and promises made in hot situations.
Hence i did not raise more involved technicalities, e.g., panel quality, gamut, headache-inducing PWM backlights (in 2K$ TP's...?), still the lack of OLED panels for 12-13" TPs, no 10b workflow over the current DP and HDMI (unspecified!), lack of HDCP2.2. etc... :-)
Net: Given a choice of panel formats, what would you pick for your next TP: Today's 16:9, or perhaps a 16:10, 3:2 or even a 4:3 screen?

" The W520 was a real workstation. "
Indeed, the reason why i've returned all the newer models and went back for me and my wife to the w520; other than its 16:9 panel, the rest is a workhorse, all the ports, lights etc. Only for travel i got an S1 yoga (pen & tablet), since the w520 + PSU = ca. 10-lbs.
I hope that Lenovo will re-consider not only bringing new 17" machines, but also reviving the 'true' TP tradition that has sadly ended with the w520...!

4:3 aspect ratio (standard screen) apple tv compatibility issues

Hi folks,
I'm hoping somebody can help me out. After reading through the forms I already
know the bad news that Apple TV doesn't support 4:3 standard screen aspect ratio. Unfortunately, this is the type of TV that I have with no abilities to change it. Does anybody om this form know of a work around to this issue? My TV is not a HDTV but has the proper video (blue,green) inputs. I'm currently in the process of purchasing a new advanced AV home entertainment receiver that's able to support all types of video inputs so here's my question. Does anybody know of a AV receiver, or do they make an AV receiver that could recognize the Apple TV's 16:9 wide screen aspect ratio and convert it to 4:3? I have a $40.00
digital converter box that does this so I'm thinking there's got to be an AV receiver that perhaps can do this.
Bob

Welcome. Will just add again, it is more up to the TV being able to deal with it. But as mentioned, if the TV has the component (or is it composite, I always forget ... why oh why did they name them so close) jacks, I would say there is a very high chance it will work just fine. Believe the setting in the AppleTV at setup would be 480i (or 480p)...one of those. If you pick the wrong one, it will figure it out and restart to let you choose the other.
The movies I play all play fine. I will admit I get many from BitTorrent and convert them to MP4 and haven't had any issues. And those I rent/buy from iTunes all play well.
The only place that is really a pain is the browsing of movies in the iTunes store from the AppleTV when viewing on a 4:3 TV. It all gets scrunched so reading the words below the images of the movie is a bit difficult, but not impossible. That is really the only place I wish worked better, but do understand they never meant for it to play on a 4:3 set (even if that set allows it).

Monitor Settings - Aspect Ratio

I just bought one of your computer monitors from Best Buys in Mooresville, North Carolina [#1133] with a four year extended warrantee. I bought the Lenovo - L2262 unit with the 21.5 inch screen. Monitor LI P/N: 0A46982. I paid $174.43.
Here's my problem:
I work with AutoCAD and I need my screen aspect ratio to be 1 to 1. It is shipped with an elongated aspect ratio and I don't like that. When I draw a square with my AutoCAD, I want it to be a square and not a rectangle. There must be somewhere in the settings of the program where I can reset the aspect ratio to 1 on 1 for my purposes.
Please respond.
Thomas De Lello
Catawba, NC.
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Maso,
How is the display in other applications including Windows? Does everything appear in correct proportion?
Have you been using the system with another display previous to your move to the L2262, and noted the squares were ... square as expected prior to switching displays? What system are you using to drive the display?
What display resolution are you running? Perhaps a non-native resolution might be selected?
I don't know autocad, and I'm sure you know your way around it pretty well. That said, does autocad have a setting to lock aspect ratios? I found some citations in their online user guide for the 2010 version here, but these seem to relate to rendering rather than creating basic shapes.
Anything else you can tell us about the configuration and your use prior to adding this display may help draw additional suggestions from the community.
Best regards
Mark
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Aspect ratio for a video object

How can you maintain a video objects aspect ratio? The
property maintainAspectRatio seems to work only with the
flvplayback component.

Regardless of the display resolution, if your projector is displaying pixels in a slightly oblong fashion then its outside of the Mac's ability to compensate. The most the mac can do aspect ratio-wise, is to set a different number of pixels on the x and y axes, which would create a different screen aspect ratio, but wouldnt touch the pixel aspect ration. Perhaps the oblong pixels are the projector's way of stretching a too-narrow screen resolution to fit the area the projector is trying to cover. You should be able to change the output screen resolution to the projector in the displays system preference. Try several and see which one works best with the projector.

Difficult Pixal Aspect Ratio problem

I am having trouble with the PAR (and Screen Aspect Ratio) from one particular camera that belongs to the client. It's a Sony SR-100 SD camera that records some form of MPEG-2 directly to a HDD. Normally I don't have trouble sussing out aspect ratios, but this one has me stumped. My guess is that QT and/or FCP are not handling it correctly.
The native footage is read as muxed MPEG-2 @ 640x480 with square pixels in QT Player (Movie Properties) and FCP (Item Properties). This doesn't fit the SD frame. More later. A handy tool called MediaInfo Mac tells me the same clip is Primary Stream MPEG-2--not muxed--with AC3 audio at 720x480. MediaInfo Mac doesn't compute the PAR, but it does say the display aspect ratio is 4x3, so I am assuming some distortion is taking place. My client claims the specs from the camera documentation match the MediaInfo Mac data--not the QT data--and I believe him.
None of this matters, of course, if the footage plays fine in FCP. It is too small--it displays 112.5% scale up at -12.5% PAR. Odd for 720x480 native video, but that's not what QT and FCP are reading. I ran the same clip through Squared 5's Streamclip to convert to DV (as suggested by this site: http://www.aulich-adamski.de/en/perm/how-to-edit-mpeg-2-in-final-cut-pro). This is where it gets really weird. The resulting clip, when imported to FCP, is read as 810 x 480 with square pixels. 810x480. That is not a typo. On the other hand QT Player reads (and plays) the DV converted clip at 720x480 from 640x480 (DV PAR), and MediaInfo Mac reads the same. See? Weird.
The bottom line is I can use the footage scaled and squished. I don't think the client will mind, if he notices. We aren't using much of his material. The issue is I thought I understood this. Either I don't, which is fine and maybe you can 'splain it to me. Or I do and QT and/or FCP are not reading this material correctly. Any thoughts?
I'll post on the QT discussion as well.

Thanks. I also tried to find some specs on this camera, but was only able to find information on where/how to purchase. I don't know, definitely, how he shot this footage. It is definitely not 16x9. So that means I'm more confused, since you are suggesting the material should be 640x480, not 720x480--what QT alone is saying.
I did catch an error on my part--the Streamclip conversion should not be to DV but "Demux to Unscaled M2V and AIFF". Streamclip will do this, but the resulting raster is still off a little.
BTW: I am using a circular item (a DVD) shot with the camera as a reference. I generally shoot some circular object with a camera I'm unfamiliar with, and I asked him to do the same.
And... my profile says I'm in "Flyover Country" (US). I'm actually in Micronesia for a couple years. Thanks, uh, neighbor.

Experts Only: Difficult Pixel Aspect Ratio Problem

I am having trouble with the PAR (and Screen Aspect Ratio) from one particular camera that belongs to the client. It's a Sony SR-100 SD camera that records some form of MPEG-2 directly to a HDD. Normally I don't have trouble sussing out aspect ratios, but this one has me stumped. My guess is that QT and/or FCP are not handling it correctly.
The native footage is read as muxed MPEG-2 @ 640x480 with square pixels in QT Player (Movie Properties) and FCP (Item Properties). This doesn't fit the SD frame. More later. A handy tool called MediaInfo Mac tells me the same clip is Primary Stream MPEG-2--not muxed--with AC3 audio at 720x480. MediaInfo Mac doesn't compute the PAR, but it does say the display aspect ratio is 4x3, so I am assuming some distortion is taking place. My client claims the specs from the camera documentation match the MediaInfo Mac data--not the QT data--and I believe him.
None of this matters, of course, if the footage plays fine in FCP. It is too small--it displays 112.5% scale up at -12.5% PAR. Odd for 720x480 native video, but that's not what QT and FCP are reading. I ran the same clip through Squared 5's Streamclip to convert to DV (as suggested by this site: http://www.aulich-adamski.de/en/perm/how-to-edit-mpeg-2-in-final-cut-pro). This is where it gets really weird. The resulting clip, when imported to FCP, is read as 810 x 480 with square pixels. 810x480. That is not a typo. On the other hand QT Player reads (and plays) the DV converted clip at 720x480 from 640x480 (DV PAR), and MediaInfo Mac reads the same. See? Weird.
The bottom line is I can use the footage scaled and squished. I don't think the client will mind, if he notices. We aren't using much of his material. The issue is I thought I understood this. Either I don't, which is fine and maybe you can 'splain it to me. Or I do and QT and/or FCP are not reading this material correctly. Any thoughts?
I posted this on the FCP discussion as well.

Then I'm thinking you want to use an anamorphic widescreen format in FCP that you can then set up in DVDSP and presumably project or display on a widescreen TV...
Patrick

Set the aspect ratio

Hello,
I have an old iBook G4 (aspect ratio 4:3) hooked up to a TV screen (aspect ratio 16:9). This means the TV always gets the 4:3 output and is incredibly annoying.
Using the open source MPlayer I am able to set the aspect ratio of movie files to 16:9, meaning they are distorted when viewing on the iBook screen but appear correctly on the TV screen.
However, MPlayer is not as good a player as QT and tends to corrupt the rendering... is it possible to set the aspect ratio of a movie in QT? This could also be solved if it were possible to set the aspect ratio of the entire display on the iBook when the video-out cable is plugged in.

no resolution... doesn't seem possible.

Screen aspect changing when viewing recorded progr...

Hope someone can help me with this query.
The screen aspect of my TV changes whenever I fast forward through adverts whilst viewing recorded programmes. To get back to the correct aspect (16:9) I have to stop the recording and restart each time.....very frustrating, can anyone offer a solution?
Thanks
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All boxes have to be told what aspect ratio the TV they're connected to is.
BT Vision -> Settings -> TV Settings -> Screen Aspect Ratio
Don't worry, you're not alone. I've lost count of the number of homes I've visited where one look at the TV has told me they haven't set the aspect ratio of whatever box they're using.
Only use 720 or 1080 if you are connected to the TV via HDMI.

Aspect Ratio: How do I configure aspect ratio for a wider-pixel projector?

Hi.. I have an HD72 connected to my MacMini (Core Duo); the resulting picture cast on the screen has pixels a bit wider than exected, so all the cute girlies look fat Seriously, if I display a square, it's a bit more of a rectangle, and I'm wondering where I can configure the Mac Mini to alter its resolution or its aspect ratio to comply. A Quicktime-only solution is fine, this doesn't bother me except when watching videos.

Regardless of the display resolution, if your projector is displaying pixels in a slightly oblong fashion then its outside of the Mac's ability to compensate. The most the mac can do aspect ratio-wise, is to set a different number of pixels on the x and y axes, which would create a different screen aspect ratio, but wouldnt touch the pixel aspect ration. Perhaps the oblong pixels are the projector's way of stretching a too-narrow screen resolution to fit the area the projector is trying to cover. You should be able to change the output screen resolution to the projector in the displays system preference. Try several and see which one works best with the projector.

IDVD aspect ratio

The Quick Time movie on my Desktop is 16:9 and plays fine. When I imported into iDVD the image becomes squeezed (verticaly). I have iDVD version 2.1. I could not find anything in the help manu. Is there a way to change the aspect ratio in iDVD?

What happens if you actually burn the DVD and play that?
iDVD version 4 didn't have support for wide screen aspect ratios. However, if you pull on in while it may be displayed in iDVD all squished up, it might burn to a DVD in that ratio. But I don't know that for sure so you might have to sacrifice a DVD blank to find out.
If you try it, please post back and let us know what happens.
Patrick

Aspect Ratio options - why locked out?

I have a DV project shot in anamorphic widescreen, so (as I understand it) it's 720x480 with non-square pixels. It's in Avid Xpress Pro HD. Of course this footage appears vertically stretched on a standard TV so I want to burn a DVD that will automatically letterbox the image on a standard TV.
After importing to Encore (using QT .mov files for the moment) the footage is obviously not being treated as 'widescreen' and the resulting DVD is not letterboxed - it's stretched vertically. My first attempt was to 'specify the screen aspect ratio' of that asset as the user's guide describes: selecting the asset, using File > Interpret Footage. But this is grayed out in the File menu!
Next I tried to put the clip into the timeline and change the timeline's aspect ratio (in the properties pane, there are radio controls for 4:3 and 16:9). But these options are grayed out also!
Looking at the clip while editing transcode presets, Encore seems to know that the footage should be widescreen... When the 'Source' tab is selected, it's vertically stretched. When the 'Output' tab is selected, there is letterboxing visible, and when selecting '1:1 Pixel Preview' the footage gets even more vertically compressed and looks fine. So why doesn't this work later in the process? Thanks if anyone can help.
-nate

I've run axcross this one recently with MOV files from FCP as well.
Load the exported MOV file up into Premiere and it tells me the PAR is 0.9, which is wrong.
This was with a 10 bit uncompressed Blackmagic encode, and even in QT Pro it still displayed vertically stretched.
I solved the problem by encoding to MPEG-2 out of CCE SP and setting the export flag to 16:9.
When imported into Encore "As Is", you cannot get this to work.
Alternatives:
1 - Encode to MPEG-2 externally, as long as the MPEG encoder understands the Mac format video file.
2 - Re-encode the file from Premiere Pro.
Import into PPro, and interpret the footage to the correct PAR, then export out as an uncompressed AVI file if you wish to avoid a DV codec, or else export out of PPro as an MPEG-2 clip - but do not forget to interpret the footagefirst, or all you will get is a vertically stretched clip with black bars either side.
Macs?
Don't get me started.

How do I get SD video (4:3 aspect ratio) to fill the entire screen?

Any 4:3 video I stream has black bars on either side of the picture. I have a Samsung HDTV, and I can stream content using its own pc to tv streaming software and 4:3 videos fill the entire screen. Or if I play a DVD with 4:3 aspect ratio that will also automatically fill the screen. With the Apple TV I cannot make it fill the entire screen. Is this something to do with the signal being transmitted over an HDMI cable?
Has anyone else had this problem, and if so how have you resolved it?

I know it is displaying 4:3 video correctly, however I'd prefer if there was some stretching (non-linear) so that it fills the entire screen. Having 2 big black bars on either side gets very annoying. There doesnt seem to be an option to fill the entire screen when streaming from the apple tv. There are options when streaming from Samsung's own software (I don't want to use samsungs pc share manager as the apple tv's user interface is much better).
Are my options restricted because the signal is transmitted through an hdmi cable? Seems to be what other websites might be suggesting.

Using Win 10 there is a need for an app to determine the full device display area and aspect ratio programitically; the dimensions are needed to create full-screen bitmap.

While Windows.Current.Bounds returns the application windows size, in order to create a full-screen bitmap my app would need to retrieve the full display area of the device. I cannot even get the aspect ratio.
Pre-Win10, using Windows.Current.Bounds I can create a bitmap of whatever size application window the user is seeing. When the user is showing my app at full screen, I can therefore get the full display area and aspect ratio of the device and create a full-screen
bitmap.
With Win10, the user would need to know to hide the taskbar and also display at full-screen before an app can retrieve the display area and aspect ratio using Windows.Current.Bounds.
Before Win10 it's obvious to the user that full-screen is or is not being used. When I create the bitmap, I create it to fit the application window. When the app is displayed full screen, the bitmap will be full screen. Also, the app starts full-screen so
I can detect the display area at startup if I need to.
With Win10, to the user the app "looks like" it is full screen with the taskbar displayed even though it's not really full screen.
I believe that in Win10 determining the full display area will be useful and not just retrieving the application window size.
musical9

Rob, Is this forum best way to get my suggestion to the development team?
Before Win10 it's obvious to the user that full-screen is or is not being used. When I create the bitmap, I create it to fit the application window. When the app is displayed full screen, the bitmap will be full screen. Also, the app starts full-screen
so I can detect the display area at startup if I need to.
With Win10, to the user the app "looks like" it is full screen with the taskbar displayed even though it's not really full screen.
Yes, Windows.Current.Bounds does work the same, but I believe that in Win10 determining the full display area will be useful and not just the application window.
musical9

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