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[killabeez.livejournal.com]

For morgandawn, and any Mac vidders who are vidding with ripped DVD letterbox (16:9) source and iMovie:

If you are having trouble with aspect ratio on your clips, you can export the clips with black bars at the correct aspect ratio for iMovie by using the program morgandawn recommended a while back, MPEG Streamclip. What you need to do is choose the following settings:

Export to Quicktime-->
Compression: APPLE DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
Frame Size: Custom-->720 x 360
Cropping: click checkbox on-->set values as: Top = -60, Left = 0, Bottom = -60, Right = 0
Make Movie

DVDxDV does not have an equivalent setting. Hope it helps someone. :-)

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[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

thanks! I am transitioning from external capture to ripped source (yeah! MPEG Streamclip). The good news is that within FCE, you can also adjust the source back down to the 16:9 look in the timeline so it is not fatal if you screw up at the export using Mpeg Streamclip.