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Originally Posted by RawAlex
The downside for porn is that much of the time, 16 x 9 formats are useless, adding in a ton of extra stuff in the frame that isn't important.
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Alex, this only has to do with people that are rendering their 16x9 source into a 4:3 frame. If they weren't lazy and rendered it into a 16x9 frame, there would be no extras. I personally hate letterbox when you don't have to have it. it only matters when the output screen is 4:3 (which most monitors have no issue with anymore as the file resolution is much smaller than the monitor's max res.)..... my wife's iPod plays letterbox because it has to when I rip a DVD for her to watch on it... my apple cine screens are 1920x1280... so they play 16:9 inherently without problem.
I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to using Final Cut, but I do know how to take a 16x9 source and output it at 16x9 (I shoot with two SD Canon GL2s and one HD Canon HV10 so I work in both formats... I really do want an HVX200 though... looks slick!!!).... I figured that part out in the first week. In fact, when you do it properly, a 16:9 will render much, much faster at the source ratio than when you render it to 4:3 as it has to create the entire frame that way.
People that render letterbox either don't know any better, havent' taken the class on how to make it work the right way, or just like the look of having somewhere to put their copyright info so it's not on the image, just over the black instead.