Hi! I'm Microsoft's most evil and annoying creation, and I'm here to teach you about 'Aspect Ratio'. It seems that many of you don't know when something is stretched out to a stupid proportion.Remember when you were children and you stuck silly putty to a newspaper, copied the print, then stretched it out so it would look funny? Yes, that was retarded wasn't it? Well why havn't you learned?
Sometimes you rip DVDs (or download things >:D)that are animorphic or 'widescreen', then, for some reason, beyond the scope of even god himself, you stretch it out.
You're source material is most likely at a 16x9 ratio, either 720x360 or 640x360, just like this:
Rick dosn't look very happy, because he knows someone is going to fuck him up, you can see it right? He is inside your head man! And then you go and do it, you make the image 720x480 or 640x480, or good god, something worse...
Great, now Rick looks to be about 8 feet tall, and he is thinking 'Jesus Christ, and I thaught Minmei was stupid.'
You must have had a reason for trying to make Rick 4:3... Maybe your software dosn't take non-4x3 video, or maybe you need to meet specfic requirements for a project or format.
Lets learn about LETTER BOXES! Yes, letter boxes, those black bars at the top and bottom of the screen that keep everything A-Okay.
Dosn't Rick look Happy!? He's so happy, his teeth are lens flareing! He isn't stretched out, and he is now 4x3 as well. Why? Because we letter boxed him. Don't be a Minmei, use letter boxing when working with widescreen material in a full screen situation.
