No 16:9 capture from DV to RR-S?

[Sillyname]

I think I know what's happening but give me a second to write it out and get opinions. The 16:9 ratio black bars that are recorded digitally on to tape do not show up as signal at all when being played through an analog output. The RR-S stretches the video to fit into its frame. Only in 16:9 viewing ratio in PC-VCR does it squish it and make it look normal again.

Is the only way for me to record the black bars going to be to go through a firewire card?

------------------
Deep is not the root word of depression.

[Sillyname]

Can I get some recognition here? I'm a little upset at my misfortune...

[Meek]

Interesting, my camera does not do that with my RR-G. I get black bars when capturing "cinema" mode recordings. Maybe your camera has a setting for 16:9/4:3 TVs for the output signal?

M.

[Sillyname]

I'm just away at work right now. Can't be near the camera to check. Plus I don't have the manual.

Does your camera have the menus seperated into what ever mode you're in:

VTR=You get playback functions

Camera=You get camera functions

It should be on the VTR end, I guess but I don't remember seeing it.

I was nosing about and I saw an anamorphic lens that bends the light so that you use your entire 4:3 CCD when filming in 16:9. Standard 16:9 for cameras that do not have rectangular CCDs (sub $10,000) is produced by "chopping" a 16:9 section out of the CCD, leaving almost 100 lines behind.

When you play a "true" 16:9 signal on a regular TV, you get a signal that looks stretched vertically, unless you add letterboxing for a 4:3 ratio. When you play it on a widescreen TV however, the picture stretches out horizontally and is true 16:9.

The anamorphic lens "squishes" the light horizontally to fit a 16:9 area onto the entire 4:3 CCD! Again, it looks vertically stretched on a 4:3 TV but when you play it on a widescreen TV, whammo, almost 100 lines crisper!

The lenses cost $795, though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

------------------
Deep is not the root word of depression.

[Meek]

Yes, my camera has separate menus in VCR state... it does not have an option for this thing, though, it is always letterboxed. Hope you have better luck.. although extrapolating the extra lines in the camcorder should not produce too much better wuality than doing it after capture either.

By the way, you should be able to use a video editing program to squash the picture and introduce the black bars as well. I have never done it, though, so I can not help here...

M.