16:9 transfer via Panasonice 4:3 camcorder

[wozmac]

Hi this may be a dumb question but my sister has just returned from her honeymoon and my now brother-in-law has given me a Minidv camcorder tape of the holiday to put on to DVD as a surprise.

I have captured the tape via my Panasonic NV-DS55 (that shoots in PAL 4:3).

So far so good.

Gspot tells me the file is 16:9 pal but TMPGEnc 4 says it is 4:3.

Can a 4:3 camcorder transfer a 16:9 tape properly without loosing part of the original picture?


Cheers

[edDV]

Hi this may be a dumb question but my sister has just returned from her honeymoon and my now brother-in-law has given me a Minidv camcorder tape of the holiday to put on to DVD as a surprise.

I have captured the tape via my Panasonic NV-DS55 (that shoots in PAL 4:3).

So far so good.

Gspot tells me the file is 16:9 pal but TMPGEnc 4 says it is 4:3.

Can a 4:3 camcorder transfer a 16:9 tape properly without loosing part of the original picture?


Cheers

Yes. DV format records wide as horizontally compressed in a 720x576 frame resolution. 4:3 is also recorded less horizntally compressed (for PAL) to 720x576. The difference is pixel aspect ratio. Editing software allows you to ID a particular clip as 4:3 or wide usually in file properties.

[wozmac]

Thanks for the prompt reply with such concise and accurate information

Do I believe Gspot and ignore TMPGEnc 4?

Cheers again

[JohnnyMalaria]

You can open the file in our Enosoft DV Processor which will show you exactly what aspect ratio the DV is (not the AVI file etc).

[wozmac]

Thanks it says 16:9.

The prog looks like it has some useful features.

Thanks again.