Ok, I had not noticed that before. In normal quality, it is 4x3. When you click "watch in high quality" now, the aspect ratio is fixed.. as in it is true 16x9. Nice. Much better than that little letterboxed rectangle video in the middle of a frame thing that so many videos here have. Sorry if you knew all of this already.
The aspect ratio I see in the video above IS truly 16x9. Just no letterboxing. Take a good hard look at the mcdonalds sign. It's shape is perfect. Not stretched or distorted at all. I think you're expecting letterboxing where none is needed, OR since your upload, youtube has changed the way they display certain formats and is detecting aspect ratio now.(I chose "view high quality")
Because your video gets down converted to a 15 frame flash movie. Nowhere near HDV quality. I use a HV10 with iMovie on a Mac with no problem. If you use iMovie HD your project will stay in 16X9 and if you have a newer version of iDVD your HD movie will fit on a DVD and play back full screen on a widescreen TV.
No I think that your importer just didn't upload it as 16x9. Take Windows Movie Maker for example, you have to check a tab to upload a video as 16:9 and save it that way. It's kind of tough to explain. Basically you have to make sure than when you copy the mini dv footage onto your computer it's still being saved on the program as 16:9. Hope that helps, YouTube will never do this camcorder justice tho for some reason.
Ok, I had not noticed that before. In normal quality, it is 4x3. When you click "watch in high quality" now, the aspect ratio is fixed.. as in it is true 16x9. Nice. Much better than that little letterboxed rectangle video in the middle of a frame thing that so many videos here have. Sorry if you knew all of this already.
gotilk 3 years ago
The aspect ratio I see in the video above IS truly 16x9. Just no letterboxing. Take a good hard look at the mcdonalds sign. It's shape is perfect. Not stretched or distorted at all. I think you're expecting letterboxing where none is needed, OR since your upload, youtube has changed the way they display certain formats and is detecting aspect ratio now.(I chose "view high quality")
gotilk 3 years ago
Because your video gets down converted to a 15 frame flash movie. Nowhere near HDV quality. I use a HV10 with iMovie on a Mac with no problem. If you use iMovie HD your project will stay in 16X9 and if you have a newer version of iDVD your HD movie will fit on a DVD and play back full screen on a widescreen TV.
WalleyTV 4 years ago
hey- has anyone been able to import footage using a mac?
my camera doesn't recognise that it's been plugged in..
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!?!
ribenawrath 4 years ago
No I think that your importer just didn't upload it as 16x9. Take Windows Movie Maker for example, you have to check a tab to upload a video as 16:9 and save it that way. It's kind of tough to explain. Basically you have to make sure than when you copy the mini dv footage onto your computer it's still being saved on the program as 16:9. Hope that helps, YouTube will never do this camcorder justice tho for some reason.
AestheticIndulgence 5 years ago