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Old 26th Jan 2021, 7:58 pm   #51
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Default Re: "Converting" 4:3 to 16:9 (Aspect Ratios)

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Originally Posted by peter_scott View Post
must be black outside the active picture, unless otherwise specified by the broadcaster.
All to often the broadcaster seems to specify an out-of-focus repeat of the image when its one of those ghastly portrait-orientation mobile 'phone images.

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I would assume that "zoomed to fill the 16:9 raster" would mean that the zooming applied to width and height to preserve the geometry and thus the width would be cropped.
If 4:3 is zoomed to fill 16:9, it would presumably be the top and bottom that would be cropped.
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