video is elongated

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David Emerling

When I download video from DV recorder using Moviemaker and then convert
it to an .avi file - it is always elongated and distorted, making the
people look fat. It never used to this.

When I view the video on my DV recorder, it looks normal, however.

Is there some way of stopping this?

Thanks!

David Emerling
Memphis, TN
 
what sort of avi file are you converting to?
WOuld be best to convert to wmv maybe?
 
Graham said:
what sort of avi file are you converting to?
WOuld be best to convert to wmv maybe?
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DV-NTSC. My intentional is to ultimately burn it to a DVD. Doesn't WMV
have much lower video quality than AVI?

David Emerling
Memphis, TN
 
let's start with the original file.
Did you capture as a dv.avi file?
Is it 16.9 and you captured as 4.3 or vice versa?
Or set the project properties as one and captured as the other?
 
Graham said:
let's start with the original file.
Did you capture as a dv.avi file?
Is it 16.9 and you captured as 4.3 or vice versa?
Or set the project properties as one and captured as the other?
Click to expand...

I have a DV camera and it records it in 4:3.

I use Moviemaker to capture it to my computer. That's when it seems to
become 16:9. It displays normally if I look at it while it's still on
tape, residing in my camera, but once an AVI file is captured, whenever
I view it in Media Player, it is elongated and seems to be trying to
display in 16:9. People look distorted, fat, and stubby. It doesn't look
natural.

Why does it do that?

David Emerling
Memphis, TN
 
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