Oh man, vidding from different aspect-ratio sources is SUCH a pain in the ass. The resource that I found most helpful on this subject was the mac vidding tutorial at foolishpassion.org (http://www.foolishpassion.org/) (but she has a PC tutorial too, if that's your style). She focuses on aspect ratio, with helpful diagrams and numbers and so forth.
Oh, and assuming that you do vid on a mac (I assume so because your vid is in .mov format), I've gotten a lot of help on this subject from the people at mac_vidding_101, which is a great community, and has tags on aspect ratio. I'm still a pretty new vidder, and I suspect that there are more advanced ways of dealing with the problem of multiple aspect-ratio sources (cropping or reframing them in Final Cut, for example), but my solution for the moment is to just crop everything into 16:9 (using MPEG Streamclip) and then vid in that aspect ratio (so I cut the tops and bottoms off of 4:3 sources like ST:TOS or Buffy, and I cut the sides off of 2:35:1 (film) sources like X-Men or Tipping the Velvet, and then 16:9 sources like Lost or SGA are left alone).
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Date: 2008-11-04 07:22 pm (UTC)Oh man, vidding from different aspect-ratio sources is SUCH a pain in the ass. The resource that I found most helpful on this subject was the mac vidding tutorial at foolishpassion.org (http://www.foolishpassion.org/) (but she has a PC tutorial too, if that's your style). She focuses on aspect ratio, with helpful diagrams and numbers and so forth.
Oh, and assuming that you do vid on a mac (I assume so because your vid is in .mov format), I've gotten a lot of help on this subject from the people at
I hope that helps! Again, it's a superfun vid.