High School highlight video (Widescreen or standard)

I am making a high school football highlight video for college recruiters. The capture video is widescreen. Should I convert it to a 4:3 project or leave it 16:9. I am not sure if they will be using widescreen televisions.

If the footage is already in widescreen, then keep it in widescreen. If they have a widescreen TV, great. If they don't no harm-no foul. Also, football is a sport that lends itself to widescreen viewing and you can cover more of the field with less wasted space, aka, no useless crowd above or below the field of play. Keep it widescreen, just make sure the DVD you make is an anamorphic DVD so that if they do have a widescreen TV that your video won't appear in the middle of a black frame.
Good luck,
-Brian

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GreatFun,
Yes, while I couldn't spend much time today at work reviewing the link ATR provided, at a high level I like ATR's approach as well, and it definitely is advantageous for that use case and rendering only the final product. My use case is a bit different. My son's high school webcasts each match which I then pull off their Youtube channel (with their permission, of course) and use their camera angles and their play-by-play guys commentary (again, with permission) to augment my video (which are closer to the action and much better quality than theirs, I must say). The kids get a kick out of hearing the play-by-play guy yell their name when the score or make a great play. So that is why I produce my clips separately. To me it is cleaner and I can store them for later use outside PE or any other project.
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I've probably written too long a post as it is for this forum, but I hope I've given you some things to consider on your next shoot.
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