taking a widescreen to full screen

[hence]

just curious, does this method actually cut the left and right out (so you'd be missing some of the shots?)

[jeex]

you could do a pan & scan, but then that squeezes the image all out of proportion and it looks all weird and stuff.

so yes, cutting off the sides would be the best route to going fullscreen. whenever you watch movies on vhs they cut off the sides, or when you watch them on tv, they cut off the sides..

[wildcatfan]

jeex a true pan and scan doesn't squish things at all, it cuts off the edges. The problem with doing this is that when a real movie is panned and scanned they actually do "pan and scan" across the frame to keep the necessary key elements in the frame. This is something you can't do (at least not easily at all) and you may lose important information that is pertinent to the film if it is at the edges of the screen.

Michael