Wide-screen compressing

I have finished working on a movie built on film clips from my friend's Canon video camera. It shoots wide-screen footage, so the iMovie project is also wide-screen. Now that it is time to compress the project, I am finding that most of the QuickTime options "squish" the image to something that is no longer wide-screen. There are a few options that do not. But these have low-quality resolution.
Any suggestions?
thanks!
Greg M.

I found it! On iMovie 7.0.3 (OS 10.4.11 version) select 'share' then QuickTime then 'movie to AVI'. Next to that selection are 'settings'. There are two adjustable settings: the video was set to 4:3. I changed it to 16:9 for wide-screen.
Perfect!
Greg M.

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I'm using Adobe Premiere CS5 and have problem with my wide screen videos.I havent HD cam,just regular dv cam,and i made video in wide screen mode.Can someone tell me what settings i should use to get the best qualitty? I tried DV pal wide but wasnt really great,picture was smaller than screen,and if i strech it,its lower qualitty...tried some more options,but still i dont like it....Maybe it cant be really great without HD camcorder? Thanks for answer in advance.

Im not sure if u asked for this,but this is from mediainfo:
General
Complete name                            : D:\montaza\Vanja\1.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
Commercial name                          : DVCPRO
Format profile                           : OpenDML
File size                                : 2.73 GiB
Duration                                 : 13mn 7s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 29.8 Mbps
Recorded date                            : 2006-06-04 23:16:57.000
Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : DV
Commercial name                          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                                 : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint                            : Sony
Duration                                 : 13mn 7s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 24.4 Mbps
Encoded bit rate                         : 28.8 Mbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 5:4
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 25.000 fps
Standard                                 : PAL
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 2.357
Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:01:23
Time code source                         : Subcode time code
Stream size                              : 2.64 GiB (97%)
Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 13mn 7s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 024 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 96.1 MiB (3%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
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Unable to get HD Wide Screen 16:9 to fill the screen on TV.

12/20/08
Problem: I am not able to get HD Wide Screen 16:9 to fill the screen on TV. Leaves dark bands on the top and bottom of picture.
What I'm working with: Mac Pro Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors with 2GB Memory soon to be 6GB & 30 inch screen. QuickTime Pro 7.5.5, Final Cut Express 4.0.1, and iDVD, 7.0.2.
New JVC, GZ-HD3U camcorder with QuickTime conversion software, recently updated, provided by JVC with the camera to change native TOD. files created in the camcorder to native MPEG2 files in Quicktime at a size of 1920 x 1080.
Two TV's, one Wide Screen HD and the other standard screen. I have changed the TV aspect rations back and forth from 4:3 to 16:9 and the only thing that changes is the size of the black bands on the top and bottom of the screen. The black spaces are larger in 16:9, making the picture appear squeezed.
I am using RW DVD discs so I can continue to try different setups without wasting discs and so far I have tried about 12 different arrangements. Two methods work but they are export conversions to a 4:3 aspect ratio and 720X480DV/DVCPRO-NTSC. Certainly this is a work around, but doing this looses the Wide Screen HD effects provided by the original JVC movies.
When I import the clips, and I've tried a number of different imports from QuickTime to Final Cut Express, I make sure that the Sequence set up matches or comes as close as possible to the imported clips. I've tried exporting them from FCE without changes and I have exported them using QuickTime to change them to different formats using nearly everything available trying to get the clips or sequences ready to import to iDVD.
In iDVD I have set up using both aspect ratios and it appears as thought setting up in 16:9 makes the spaces above and below even larger on TV. In fact it creates these spaces above and below even on the 720X480DV/DVCPRO-NTSC clips that work just fine on the 4:3 aspect ratio settings on the same TV.
If anyone has overcome this problem, I would greatly appreciate your guidance. So far, I've spent over a 100 hours on it to no avail.
Larry

Tom, I don't know where to go in FCE to create a AVCHD AIC Sequence. I can find the
1920X1080i60 in the Sequence format without any problem. And in QT don't know where to select AIC but I select Apple Intermediate Codec, and under compressor I select HDV 1080i interlaced frame rate 29.97. Under Export Size Settings I don't know rather to select 1920 x 1080 HD or HD 1920 x 1080 16:9 and what about preserve aspect ratio using and Deinterlace Source Video?
Part two: When I create a Sequence in FCE with the 1920X1080i60 designation, and then import a QT HD 1920X1080 16:9 Intermediate Codec clip into a bin and then open the clip in that sequence I'm asked if I want to match the clip to the sequence and if I don't I have rendering. If I match them the rendering, as you said, goes away. However, I notice that when I check out the Item Properties on them after the above process, the Aspect ratio in the clip and Sequence, suddenly becomes HD 1440x1080. Is this normal?
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uastasi wrote:Take a look to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf at Monitor Section and try editing your refresh rate.
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which is a setting that doesn't even include the 30.0 that Gnome is showing me in the resolution preferences dialog. Moreover, I see things perfectly well, so I think X is correctly started at 1280x800@60Hz - it's just Gnome that seems to not be understanding that! Anyhow, I tried changing the above line to:
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Can anybody please help me, who has prior knowledge of changing the ratio from 4 x 3 to 16.9 widescreen that I have already imported.. I have tried everything in the preferences.. Before I imported it, and after, however it is not working. It’s been imported from a FlashCARD… Thank you in anticipation

Hello once again Tom, sorry for the inconvenience, I'm quite new to this Final Cut Pro as you can tell. However here is information you requested I hope I got it right for you.
I will do my best to explain as I go on. I'm using a Canon XL2 broadcast camera which is capable of shooting in 9 x 6 and 4 x 3. It is a DV tape camera and additional to that I have on the back a datavideo (DN 60) flash card recorder. I do believe that the flash card recorder records in 16 x 9, so I am told by the distributors. I'm also told by the same distributors that for some reason Final Cut Pro X does not recognise the 16 x 9 flag, however Adobe, Sony Vegas etc they do recognise it and allow you to change the ratio size in their software. When I use the tape from the camera it exports into Final Cut Pro X as 16 x 9, so I will thought that the flash card recorder would record in the same format.
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Sick of wide-screens!

I'm a graphic artist. I need a big screen to see what I'm doing. Ever since Mac started making wide-screens, the screens are wider, but the height is too small! So in order to get the right viewing size for that I'm doing with wide-screen I need to buy a laptop or computer with a HUGE SCREEN. Also I have a full-screen wacom tablet. I don't have 360$ more to buy ANOTHER ONE in full-screen!
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13-inches of WIDE-SCREEN is like buying a tiny portable DVD player, NOT A COMPUTER!
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The res has more height but the actual screen size makes it look smaller. Kinda like having a 12 inch screen set on 1024x768 looks allot smaller so it all fits, vs a 14 inch screen with the same res it looks bigger cause the screens bigger.
When you're doing detailed work it's nice to see what you're doing. Zooming in only works sometimes but if you need to see a large area, having a small screen wouldn't be very helpful. You'd still see the same amount of area but it's smaller. Ya know? Like looking at it from far away.
Neh I just had a moment. I wish this stupid thing had an edit posts. I'd make it less angry. I just don't see why they made it a 13 inch instead of a 15 inch. Hopefully they'll work something out.
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