sgtpowers
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Post by sgtpowers on Jan 30, 2020 20:13:14 GMT
Hi,
I need some help with a question i've got. We have many 'modern' WW2 documentaries, remastered to colour and HD. But what about the aspect ratio? I mean, everything was recorded at that time in a complete other aspect ratio. How did they turn it to 16:9? Is it just stretched? Or zoomed-in? Anything else?
Thanks.
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Post by OldAussie on Jan 30, 2020 22:48:45 GMT
not 100% sure but I think they just chop off the top/bottom to give the original 1.37:1 a new 1.78:1 ratio.
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paislene
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Post by paislene on Jan 30, 2020 23:00:43 GMT
Interesting question , Sergeant . Most modern good quality flat screen tv's will stretch a
standard 4:3 documentary through it's internal hardware and software these days . I have a
LG UHD 4K Tv , only a year old , which has the very latest internal conversion , and also
upscales the quality and color . But I have to say the end result , only looks like a natural
16:9 standard dvd conversion . But I guess that's a help , over a slightly out-of-focus 4:3 on
a 1.85~1.90 4K widescreen .
Most professional conversions used to convert old documentaries to wide , use professional
editing software , before copying to dvd (or occasionally to blu-ray/4k) . And I believe the
different production companies who do this , use proprietary software specifically for them ,
meaning because of the software used specifically by their company , the quality of the conversion
will vary according to who has converted it .
   
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Post by mslo79 on Jan 30, 2020 23:23:29 GMT
I know on some TV's they will stretch the image to fit the widescreen TV but anything that's for the old days standard 4:3 TV's when I play it back on a modern TV I make sure it does not stretch it as you will have black bars on the left and right of the image.
if your TV itself is doing it, you can likely fix it through the TV's settings etc. but if the video file itself is messed with there is probably not much you can do.
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