I have a Panasonic GS39 and have shot all my footage in "widescreen" mode. The manual says that widescreen is in the 16:9 aspect ratio, but when I capture footage with Adobe Premiere, all of my clips are 720X480, which corresponds to the 4:3 aspect ratio. What am I doing wrong here?

All NTSC widescreen DV is 720x480 pixels; just like 4:3 mode. However; widescreen pixels are wider than normal pixels to allow stretching the picture by 33% to fit a widescreen TV. In order to put these wider pixels back into a 720x480 box requires an anamorphic squeeze process that makes the picture seem vertically stretched on a 4:3 display.

There is a data bit or flag which indicates if the video is 4:3 or 16:9






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Wait - Isn't NTSC 4:3 640x480 pixels?

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Any idea how to set this flag or detect how it's set? Perhaps this is done during capture from the camera?

"The DVD 720x480 standard was based upon the older analog NTSC and PAL standards which have a fixed 4:3 aspect ratio, but a variable horizontal resolution (approximately 200 up to 700) depending upon the quality of the received signal. The DVD specification was designed to capture this variable resolution, assuming an ideal lossless NTSC or PAL signal. Discussing the encoding of anamorphic DVD is somewhat difficult, because of the older analog formats which it depends upon. NTSC has approximately 720x480 visible pixels, but they are non-square pixels (see the discussion under pixel aspect ratio)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_widescreen



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I have no idea how to set the bit. Sektionschef would know: http://www.camcorderinfo.com/bbs/sh...ad.php?t=132937




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