FLASH ASPECT RATIO!?? Help

I have set up a flash movie to be played on a 37" lcd. It said the resolution is 1366x768 WXGA, HDTV compatible. So that is the resolution I have set it to play in. It will be playing as .swf
My question is: will it fill the entire screen, look correct? I don't have a 37" to test it in... only a 42".
please help.

My guess is Flash Player will give viewers the option of full screen. Good question.

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Hi Everyone,
I've got a Sony DCR SR-32 camera (please don't laugh ) and shooting in its HQ mode, (9Mb/s) and 16:9 aspect ratio.
I can import the footage into iMovie and make a movie with no problems. But I've just bought FCE and am struggling to get the footage imported at the correct 16:9 aspect ratio. After trawling the discussions I've tried the log and transfer method, and all the other relevant discussion on importing AVCHD files directly into FCE but no success (I get file opening error ?). So I'm bringing the footage into iMovie, exporting it from iMovie as an FCE XML file and opening that using PAL anamorphic or NTSC anamorphic Easy setups.
Even so, I've got what looks like 16:9 video squeezed into a 4:3 aspect ratio with black boarders on either side padding it out back to the 16:9 size.
I'd welcome any advice other than "get a new camera "

Hi Tom, I seem to have a similar problem, not sure if you've seen this, but I have the new canon vixia hg 21 which is avchd and FCP 6 isn't recognizing it either. Using Imovie to recognize the files works fine, the problem is that when you export from imovie '08 into FCP via xml, it imports fine, but I also get the same display issue with the black bars surrounding the footage, only in the canvas. It appears fine in the viewer and in it's own sequence in the timeline. But when you mix the different camera footage together, the other being the Canon XH A1, it appears as a different aspect ratio??? What the?
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The footage looks distorted (4:3) no matter what project settings I use. I tried using the Intrepret Footage per Adobe help, and while that does seem to get rid of the 4:3 aspect ratio, the preview window then for some reason shows a much smaller widescreen preview surrounded by a lot of black box.
I tried outputing a sample file, and sure enough, the final output shows a smaller version of the footage with more then normal black box surrounding it.
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I'm reading this site:
http://www.shapeofdays.com/2005/05/a_demonstration.html
and i read that: "A widescreen standard-definition TV picture is 850 pixels across by 480 pixels down."
questions:
1) so what is the aspect ratio if i change the "standard-defintion" to read HD or Hi-Definition?
2) preface: i created a Widescreen project using iMovie HD 5.0.2 that was shot at 16:9. i created a DVD from the iMovie project and it is 16:9. i "shared" my finished project and selected Full at the first prompts and got a dialogue saying something about the full quality of my project being saved; it produced a QT .dv file of the size of my project (about 3 gb) which is correct, afaik.
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A widescreen standard-definition TV picture is 850 pixels across by 480 pixels down
A standard NTSC picture is 640 x 480
BUT, DV format saves video in a 720x480 ratio. DV pixels are not square, however. When shooting standard TV, the pixels are higher than they are wide and appear 640x480. When shooting widescreen, the pixels are wider than they are tall, thus giving a 16x9 (850x480) appearance.
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Help needed re: aspect ratios

Hey all,
I have a nagging problem with aspect ratios and I am hoping that someone on here can help. I understand that it might be a little more of an "in-depth" issue than most, but it's driving me absolutely insane and I will be forever grateful to the souls that help me with it.
I am compressing all my films to Flash for my website. The films are all in different aspect ratios. I am including links to help fully understand:
16:9 http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1663/elotroladolgprogpd9.jpg
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Roberto

What encoding tool are you using? If you're using Flash Encoder (part of Flash Professional), you can trim out the mattes in the Crop And Resize tab of the Settings dialog.
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Can you help me solve my aspect ratio issue?

Hey guys,
I'm posting this in hopes that someone can help me solve an aspect ratio issue with a project that I have to finish by tomorrow.
I'm trying to avoid having to re-edit the entire thing.
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You can work with a timeline, but if you try to export anything, it never works. I always have to convert my footage to ProRes MOVs with MPEG Streamclip before I can work with them is CS3. That takes a lot of time and a lot of hard drive space. After much research, I found out that CS5 is the way to go for DSLR footage. I just need to save up my pennies for the upgrade.
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Upon installing the trial program, I found that the project presets were limited. I knew this ahead of time because it's clearly stated on the Adobe's website.
But I wasn't aware how limited they are.
Since "DSLR 1280x720p 30p" is not an option with the trial, I was going to use HDV 720p 30p. But that was not an option either!
So basically, my only option for 16x9 30p was "DV NTSC Widescreen". It's my understanding that this is 864x480 (in square pixel aspect ratio) or 720x480 (in widescreen pixel aspect ratio) I needed the output file to be 864x486. I downsized the footage to 69% in the "Video Effects: Motion" setting so it looked correct in the project. I didn't think about those extra 6 pixels until I outputed the file and saw thin black lines on the top and bottom. My guess is that Premiere is adding black pixels because my project is technically 720x480 (1.2121)
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On export, just crop a few pixels off of each side; that'll let the image scale correctly to the output frame size without black bars.
I'm not running the trial, but you should still be able to create a custom sequence preset using the Desktop editing mode. Just switch over to the General tab when you create a new sequence, and choose "Desktop" from the editing modes. Set the rest of the parameters as you need them.
Even easier: once you've imported your footage, just drag a clip to the New Item icon at the bottom of the project panel; a sequence will be created matching your footage parameters. You can edit at full-resolution, and then export to your desired frame size when complete--you'll probably still need to crop a few pixels (in the Export Settings window) to eliminate the black bars.

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I am trying to watch a streaming TV channel in Shockwave Flash. The person initiating the streaming is using an incorrect aspect ratio that distorts the image. He is putting a 3:2 image in the HD 16:9 screen, which means that the image is 18.5% too wide. People appear too fat, for example. I have tried to get him to correct the problem, but it appears he is unwilling to do it or unable to see the problem or doesn't know how to fix it. His site has the code that I can use to embed the image in a web page of my own, with the "object" and "embed" html tags, and I thought that perhaps I could resize the dimensions to be correct at my end. I've looked at the attributes for the Shockwave Flash and it appears that there should be one called "scale" and it appeared to me that if I chose "exactfit", I could lose his incorrect aspect ratio. However, I have been unsuccessful in making this work. If I make the horizontal:vertical dimension 3:2 as is really the case with his image, black bands appear at the top and bottom and I still get his distorted image stretched too wide horizontally.
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Shockwave Flash is Flash Player, not Shockwave Player.
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I just renewed my 2 year contract which included a free box but a billing screwup resulted in repeated charges for the box. A CS rep credited the account and said I had the wrong box and she would send out a new one.
i had a 7100 Motorola HD box. I have an older television set (that cannot control aspect ratio) and I have never had HD service but this was the box I was sent by Verizon as part of my contract. Why they felt it had to be changed I don't know, but ..... the box they sent was a 2500 SD box which does not give me an acceptable picture.
It's totally random. Some channels are 16:9. Some are overzoomed 4:3. The FIOS channel bar at the bottom is partially off the screen and the content is clipped around the edges. Commercials are totally random in size and appearance.
The # key on the remote does not work. There is no option in Settings to change the aspect ratio.
CS was ZERO help. They concluded that I had to either deal with the scattershot image sizes and clipped image content or go buy another television. SERIOUSLY VERIZON?
I couldn't get an answer as to why the box I was sent by Verizon as part of my original contract that provided a perfectly acceptable image had to be replaced with a box that doesn't provide squat. I have had Verizon service for approximately 7 years with this same television and this is the first time I've been given a box that can't produce an acceptable image and a remote that can't resize. So why now?
This smells like a bait and switch, or an attempt to get customers to pay for an upgraded box for a service they don't want just to get an acceptable picture. I live in an urban area and there is plenty of older equipment in these homes. So are customers like myself just being told even though you pay a significant amount of money for a Triple Play you are only getting 2 parts of the service?
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why do so many topics go to private section? we need to see how it's responded to in case we have the same problem..
but yes, our 2500 sd box, basically the 4:3 standard non HD box broadcasts to fit a 4:3 TV.. now some channels will have the black bars on top and bottom to accommodate the 16:9 aspect ratio.. you'll notice this if you run the 2500 box on a flat screen.. if you have it in 16:9 ratio on a flat screen it looks stretched.. the only way to watch regularly is in 4:3 mode.. which basically has the image with bars on all sides.. or you can zoom it and lose a portion of the image.. but it's because the box thinks you're using a 4:3 sd tv so the boxes appear on top and bottom so it can still fit the wider image it's filmed in.. so with flat screens you need the HD box i guess.. unless there is something i'm missing but there isn't a setting that i can find to change how the box exports the image for a flat screen or 4:3. I know the HD boxes have an 'SD Override' option.. which i guess tells the box you're not using a 4:3 tv anymore.. but that option is not on the 2500 SD box.. believe me i looked.. but this is all in reverse for your issue anyhow as you're having trouble with the SD box on an SD TV... which yeah, if you run SD the quality of picture is not as good as the HD programming.. so please let us know what they say to do for you.

Aspect ratio on flash

hi guys,
is it possible to change the aspect ratio on flash like this:
[IMG]http://www.photo-dvd-maker.com/img/howto/original_4_3_to_16_9_fit.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.photo-dvd-maker.com/img/howto/original_16_9_to_4_3_fit.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.photo-dvd-maker.com/img/howto/original_16_9_to_4_3_fill.jpg[/IMG]
if so how can i do that??
Thanks

Probably not with Flash Player. If this is a question regarding Flash, you better post in the Flash forum.

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