Re: 16:9 aspect ratio using Digital Cut

This is 16:9 Anamorphic. It is the correct way to output proper widescreen video. When displayed on a widescreen TV is should expand properly to fill the screen and be wide.

It can be complicated slightly by the fact that DV supports a widescreen signaling format that is supposed to tell the display device whether the signal is 4:3 or 16:9 Anamorphic. However this flag isn't usually able to be set by decks and NLEs, only by cameras. Making it slightly useless in practice.

However rest assured that 'tall and skinny' in a full frame is actually proper widescreen 16:9 and should look right on a widescreen TV or projector, assuming the TV isn't set to assume it is a 4:3 video.